In this week's episode, we look at the history of the space shuttle and why it never achieved its goal of cheap, reusable flight

Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927 .

He won the $ 25,000 Orteig Prize to fly from New York to Paris or vice versa.

Today there are multiple private space launch companies focusing on reusability in order to save costs.

But there is a new technology that's being developed right now that might overcome those obstacles.

A space plane has been in development by a company called Reaction Engines out of the UK since 1989 .

The biggest challenge for a space plane is just simply having enough fuel to get up to orbit.

A hybrid air breathing rocket engine that Allen Bond designed called Saber is designed to suck in air just like a jet engine up to a height of about 26 kilometers .

The precooler would allow the Skyline to fly faster than an Sr. 71 Blackbird.

SSTO designs are implemented and created for one real purpose only, and that is to get the cost of Space Flight down.

Companies like SpaceX and Rocket Lab have already brought down cost of launches considerably through more efficient and cheaper engines, reusability and other rocket advancements that may already be gone.