On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:57:43 -0700, dumpster4 wrote:
"India is developing a winged reusable rocket and the Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) has configured a Technology Demonstrator as
a first step towards realising it, the space agency said in a report."
See:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/
India_Developing_Winged_Reusable_Rocket_999.html
LOL! Two stage to orbit "completely reusable".
If paper proposals counted, then Von Braun was the first human on Mars.