How Do Spacecraft Survive Re-Entry?

How do spacecraft survive the enormous heat and crushing g’s of re-entry? And why don’t astronauts actually land in rockets, like they do in cartoons and comic books? SciShow Space explains!

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Sources:
http://history.arc.nasa.gov/hist_pdfs/bio_allen_pub.pdf
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4305/ch12.htm
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Atmospheric_reentry.html
https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/designees_delegations/designee_types/ame/media/Section%20III.4.1.7%20Returning%20from%20Space.pdf
http://www.universetoday.com/13762/soyuz-crew-safe-after-a-violent-re-entry-and-landing-400km-off-target/