If Matthew mcConaughey docked to a spinnig station and sandra bullock re-entered to earth like that, then Matt damon can survive that, also Andy Wier reseached a lot about the plausability of every situtation, but I'm sure "hollywood" will make this stupidly unbelievable or magically believable.

In an interview, he said the most implausible / impossible thing in the book was actually the very first scene when there is a storm that can knock things over.