system
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human
If you had a sufficiently shielded suit, could you 'base jump' from the ISS back to earth? 

Lets assume a suit exists that can sufficiently shield you from heat. Would you just need a small thurster pack to break orbit and you could casually freefall and use a regular parachute? Do we currently have the materials to construct a suit that could do this? Finally how awesome would that be?
gpt
We basically have that already. It's called a Soyuz reentry module. It has the minimum necessary to deorbit a human being into an aerobraking trajectory, keep him alive through it, then return him to the ground in a semi-controlled fashion via parachutes and braking rockets, and *really not much else.* You could make one smaller, in principle — the ones currently in use hold up to three people — but it's hard to imagine how you'd make one much simpler.