Why did Jebediah survive after jumping out of a plumeting rocket?
A weird thing happened this morning, I suspect it was a bug, but I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else.
Jebediah was coming in for reentry to Kerbin when he deployed the parachute too early causing it to be ripped off in the atmosphere. At this point all was lost so he tried something radical: at the moment before impact he jumped out of the capsule. The capsule was going about 280 m/s. He took a hard bounce on the surface and a couple of skids, but miraculously he survived! That was weird, but it gets weirder. Jebediah started trekking back to the crash site and after about two minutes of walking he disappeared into the surface with a puff of dust. The mission log popped up and said Jebediah had been killed by impact with the surface. Which makes sense given the crash, but the time log says he was killed 2+ minutes after every other piece hit the surface.
So two questions: What speed will kill a kerbin? And why did Jebediah "crash into the surface" when he was walking on it?
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What happens to the first stage of the rocket after it detaches?
In the typical case, the first-stage and booster engines fire to propel the entire rocket upwards. When the boosters run out of fuel, they are detached from the rest of the rocket (usually with some kind of small explosive charge or explosive bolts) and fall away. The first stage then burns to completion and falls off.What happens if a rocket hits the moon?
At the instant the rocket strikes the moon, a shock wave will travel through the impactor in mere milliseconds, shattering it into shards of exploding metal. Although this is the first piece of space junk to unintentionally collide with the moon, it isn't the first time a human-made satellite has crashed there.Where did the object that hit the moon come from?
Astronomers believe the derelict rocket stage came from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission that launched in 2014, but experts are not completely certain. Regardless of where it came from, the rocket's impact did not damage anything other than the lunar surface.What crashed into the moon 2021?
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