I am glad they carried on after the founder, Paul Allen, died only a few months ago. Too bad he couldn't see it fly. This is a good attempt at re-usability, but I think Spacex’s design has proved a better concept, with a much higher payload capacity. This might be a good passenger lifter though.
(They didn't show it in the movie, but in the book 2001: a Space Odyssey, this is the design of the Pan Am shuttle to the rotating space station. )