Wouldn't carrying the extra fuel to slow the craft on reentry make this cost prohibitive, thus why most craft use parachutes or similar passive slowing devices?
> How did they manage to flip the second craft from it's reentry position [...]?
The video is a concept video, not a real-life recording.. it's CG. But you're asking about real-world physics. And everyone else is talking about it too, as if the video actually happened, even though it's just a CG animation.
I'm just really confused; sorry. Heh. I know I'm missing something obvious here -- figured I'd ask what it was, even though I look silly. :)
Flipping a craft while hurtling toward the earth at some large velocity through an atmosphere which generates friction with very few control surfaces is not.