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It's like balancing a broomstick with your finger, with a lot more physics involved. what's so important about this is when you think about all the things we threw away on our way to space, the huge chunks of the apollo, the space shuttle aimed to be reusable, but it was not reusable in a practical way t. solid rocket boosters would be fished out of the water. the orbiter itself had those very fragile tiles on the surface which required a ton of work. owl of that added to the expense. imagine if every time we flew a 737 across the country they threw away the airplane? the likes of bezos and mu...

BEIJING, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- China Mars rover and orbiter have suspended explorations since mid-September, to wait out a period of sun outage, the China National

So i think elon musk with spacex pioneered that with the orbital rockets. they're doing it here with blue origin. virgin galactic's vehicle is reusable. that aspect of space travel is a huge change compared to the throw away rockets of the '60s and '70s. >> and for future space travel and exploration, miles, reusable rockets are essential. >> absolutely, anderson. you know, we tried to do this with the space shuttle, but we came up way short on the idea of reusability. they threw away the external fuel tank. it was very difficult to restack the solid rocket boosters. and the orbiter itself was...

Nine days, setting a record that apparently matters in the world of billionaires. cnn's rachel crane has the latest on this new frontier in the space race. >> reporter: pam, optically it certainly does look like a space race. i've spoken with richard branson recently, he told me he and his team at virgin galactic do not see this as a race, and the updated timeline was as a result of faa regulations that were revised to allow them to fly. then they had a perfect test flight which, they say, allowed them to leapfrog jeff bezos who is scheduled to fly on his orbiter on july 20. they maintain it's...