This is sooooo long
After the second epic, there's not really anything new to do and it just drags on and on. Kind of like that other game.. what was it called.. Balloon... Insurrection?
I think you get the point.
My strat. for the hard badge:
To get to space in less than 5 days, spend all of your initial money on platform height and then next round spend all of your money on band elasticity. If you haven't gotten both up to lvl 3 by day two, it will be much more difficult for you to do. Once you've gotten both, you need one good run on day two or three in order to save enough money to buy a parachute. Once you've gotten a chute, launch yourself vertically and then cruise down giggling with mirth as you watch your timer/multiplier grow. You can also move around aiming for coins, but be careful not to hit a booster once you've depolyed your chute, else you'll fall back to earth once you lose your bounciness (that means avoid boosters with your rockets).
If you've gotten your para sailing down properly, you should easily be able to afford full platform height & elasticity upgrades, which can get you to space alone. Hope that makes sense.