How is this car-related, you ask? We found the awesome video on Jalopnik, which is a car site. And we loved it, because it's really freaking cool. So that's that. (Also, the pilot's code name is "Taco" and we find that funny.)

The shuttle approaches the Earth backwards at Mach 2 to start, then turns nose-down (this happens around the 3:00 minute mark) and glides to a landing.