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    SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 was the first orbital spaceflight of the Dragon cargo spacecraft, and the second overall flight of the Falcon 9 rocket manufactured...
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    SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 (COTS 2), also known as Dragon C2+, was the second test-flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Cargo Dragon spacecraft. It launched in...
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    vehicle for this Demo-1 mission and the six contracted NASA CRS-2 missions. Cygnus Orb-D1 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 Zak, Anatoly [@RussianSpaceWeb] (2 September...
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    2019 with the Demo-1 flight, and performed its first flight with astronauts on May 30, 2020, during the Crew Dragon Demo-2 flight. SpaceX also investigated...
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    Popular Mechanics. 183 (12): 31. ISSN 0032-4558. "SpaceXCOTS Flight 1 Press Kit" (PDF). SpaceX. 6 December 2010. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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    produced by NASA alone. In December 2010 the launch of the SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 mission, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch...
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    December 2010. "COTS Demo Flight 1 status". Spaceflight Now. 9 December 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2017. Alex Knapp (29 May 2014). "SpaceX Unveils Its New...
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  • Demo 1 may refer to: Crew Dragon Demo-1, or SpaceX Demo-1 or Crew Demo-1, the first orbital test of Dragon 2 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1, the first orbital...
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    2010. "Private space capsule's maiden voyage ends with a splash". BBC. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2010. "COTS Demo Flight 1 status". Spaceflight...
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    on private markets, which roughly valued SpaceX at $1.3 billion as of February 2012. After the COTS 2+ flight in May 2012, the company private equity valuation...
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    second flight for the Falcon 9 vehicle was the COTS Demo Flight 1, the first launch under the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract...
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  • animated Mega-Blocks film SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 (December 2010), the first SpaceX Dragon mission How to Train Your Dragon 1, first film in a film series...
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    Falcon 9 (redirect from SpaceX Falcon IX)
    million. In 2008, SpaceX won a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program to deliver...
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    Starlink V1 L16". nextspaceflight.com. Retrieved 15 January 2021. "SpaceX - Launches". spacex.com. Retrieved 12 March 2021. "Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink V1...
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    Expedition 71 (category Expeditions to the International Space Station)
    SpaceX Crew-9 Docking August 2024 – CRS Cygnus NG-21 Capture & Berthing August 2024 – SpaceX Crew-8 Undocking August-September 2024 – COTS SNC Demo-1...
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    to the International Space Station in December 2008, to Orbital Sciences and SpaceX to utilize their COTS cargo vehicles. COTS is related but separate...
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    mission, STS-135, commanded the Demo-2 mission. Operational use of the Crew Dragon began with the launch of SpaceX Crew-1, carrying four astronauts, on...
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    flight, showed damage to its rotor blade tips. This ended the Operations Demo Phase and the mission. Ingenuity was permanently grounded after flight 72...
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    projects include the suborbital flights of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, the orbital flights of SpaceX and other COTS participants. Development of alternatives...
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    Gebhardt, Chris (10 March 2017). "SpaceX science – Dragon delivers experiments for busy science period". NASASpaceFlight.com. Archived from the original...
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    Commercial Resupply Services (category International Space Station)
    SpaceX announced that NASA had combined the objectives of the COTS Demo Flight 2 and following Flight 3 into a single mission. The rescoped COTS Demo...
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    Development of the Commercial Crew Program (category Space Act Agreement companies)
    uncrewed orbital test flight in 2019. SpaceX operational flights started in November 2020. SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 2019 flight of Dragon 2 arrived at...
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    welcome SpaceX and Orbital in a busy 2012". NASASpaceFlight.com (Not affiliated with NASA). Retrieved December 13, 2011. Berger, Brian (February 1, 2011)...
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    Cygnus NG-20 (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired...
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    Cygnus NG-21 (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, Orbital ATK designed, acquired...
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    Cygnus (spacecraft) (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    Kistler unable to meet funding obligations for its K-1 launch vehicle under the terms of the COTS agreement, NASA decided on 18 October 2007 to terminate...
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    water. It was used by crewed American space capsules prior to the Space Shuttle program, by the SpaceX Dragon 1 and Dragon 2 capsules and by NASA's Orion...
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    satellite. The 45th Space Wing also supported a number of other firsts, such as the 22 May 2012 launch of SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2, which was the first...
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    included the first test flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial resupply spacecraft, which is intended to resupply the International Space Station (ISS), and...
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    the space shuttle in 2011 and prior to commencement of NASA COTS and crew flights. In July 2022, NASA and Roscosmos signed a deal to share space station...
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