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See this picture? It's the Space Shuttle gliding to the ground.
The SpaceX Rocketplane burned up in the atmosphere, because it's a terrible design and they are unable to control it enough to stop it from rolling over onto the NON-heat-shield side of the rocketplane. Oh, and its design doesn't allow it to bleed off enough speed so that it can land either. So that's two major problems as a results of the terrible design.
When the vehicle rolls over, the steel becomes soft or melts, loses structural integrity, and disintegrates.
In order for the SpaceX Rocketplane to survive re-entry, it's going to need a MUCH LARGER surface area to help control its descent and glide through the atmosphere.

Go ahead.
Screencap this please.
I would actually love to be proven wrong on my assumptions about this rocketplane.
Also, there is no way the current configuration could ever hope to survive a landing on Mars or The Moon if it can't survive re-entry on Earth first.

Don't mind me, just posting the based Endeavour