Flying reusable space shuttles was NASA's consolation prize.
Indeed, in August, hackers managed to steal plans for future reusable space vehicles.There is still some way to go.
Construction of a reusable space shuttle, an idea that Nasa had also being toying with, fitted the bill.
ISRO has developed and successfully tested a reusable space shuttle, which could transport and return the astronauts.
Bezos also outlined his vision for his space company Blue Origin, which has been carrying out tests of its reusable space vehicle over the last few weeks.
This was a 2004 competition with a $10m prize for the first privately funded company to fly a reusable space ship into space twice.
Though the Space Shuttle programme ended in 2011, America seems unable to give up the idea of a reusable space plane.
The nation's fleet of four reusable space shuttles is based at Kennedy, and several flights a year take off from the center's two shuttle launching pads.
In 1969 NASA proposed to President Nixon that a reusable space shuttle be developed to serve as the basis for post-Apollo activities in Earth orbit.
The reusable space shuttle was supposed to make spaceflight cheap and almost as routine as air travel, and satellite launchings as uneventful as delivering the mail.
