I am not familiar with that show, being I live in the US. I would love to know what the budget for something like that was. As mentioned, there was a hell of a lot of expertise to pull something like that off. It's not like you simply put a car on a cylinder, and expect it to go up. As a pilot, the weight & balance, and so many other factors can take some serious number crunching, thrust ratio, and about 10,000 things have to be taken into consideration. The first time I watched it (not being familiar with the show) I thought it was smoke and mirrors and some CG thrown in. It just seemed too perfect to be reality! Even without the "Shuttle" detaching, in my book it was a 100% success. Honestly, looking at the wing span of the "shuttle" there was just no way that it could have made an adequate landing to begin with. They even mentioned the glide slope would simply not allow for the car to "glide in" but would have fallen like a rock.
All in all, that was just totally spectacular the way they were able to get that off the ground in such a perfect manor!