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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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    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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    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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    a spacecraft. Dragon successfully berthed with the ISS during SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 in May 2012, a first for a private spacecraft. Commercial Resupply...
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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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    SpaceX's proposal to combine the COTS 2 and 3 mission objectives into a single Falcon 9/Dragon flight, renamed COTS 2+. Dragon conducted orbital tests...
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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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    valued SpaceX at $1.3 billion as of February 2012. After the COTS 2+ flight in May 2012, the company private equity valuation nearly doubled to $2.4 billion...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • m). 2012 – SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. 2014...
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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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    Gordon Cooper (category Space burials)
    into the flight. On May 22, 2012, another portion of Cooper's ashes was among those of 308 people included on the SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 that was bound...
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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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    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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    Shuttle 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,...
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    Cygnus NG-20 (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    Services II (CRS-2) contract with NASA. The capsule launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Space Systems) and NASA...
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    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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    (October 6, 2011). "ISS partners prepare to welcome SpaceX and Orbital in a busy 2012". NASASpaceFlight.com (Not affiliated with NASA). Retrieved December...
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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 the...
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    Cygnus (spacecraft) (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility, although three flights were on ULA's Atlas V and three are planned for SpaceX's Falcon 9, in both cases launching...
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    Cygnus NG-21 (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    Commercial Resupply Services II (CRS-2) contract with NASA. The capsule is scheduled to be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Orbital ATK (now Northrop...
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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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    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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    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 Multipurpose...
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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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    Gebhardt, Chris (10 March 2017). "SpaceX science – Dragon delivers experiments for busy science period". NASASpaceFlight.com. Archived from the original...
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