The astronauts on the ISS that are stuck and can’t parachute back to Earth… but why not?
The highest jump I could find was 39km (Stratos jump)
Is it the height from the planet? The speed of the ISS? If we wanted to design ISS escape pods, what would be required?
An escape pod would need some thrusters, a heat shield, and parachute at bare minimum. Thrusters to cause reentry, heat shield to bleed off most of the energy while zipping through the upper atmosphere, and parachute once sufficiently slow and low enough.