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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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    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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    this Demo-1 mission and the six contracted NASA CRS-2 missions. Orbital-D1 – First Cygnus demonstration flight to dock to ISS SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 –...
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    Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. After a successful COTS demonstration flight in 2010, SpaceX was chosen to receive a Commercial Resupply...
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    a photo of the capsule several months after it had completed its COTS 2 demo flight where the spacecraft had accomplished its first docking with the ISS...
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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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    payload into the intended orbit. The second launch of Falcon 9 was COTS Demo Flight 1, which placed an operational Dragon capsule in orbit on 8 December...
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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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    2012 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 completed the NASA and SpaceX Space Act Agreement. Falcon 9 #3 flew capsule Dragon C2+ to the International Space Station...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Cygnus (spacecraft) (category Supply vehicles for the International Space Station)
    cargo spacecraft after a competitive process. SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler won contracts in the COTS program, however Rocketplane Kistler failed to...
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    crew in 2024. On May 30, 2020, SpaceX launched Crew Dragon on the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station. It carried a crew of two...
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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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  • 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. 2013...
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  • crash SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1, a test flight on 8 December 2010 List of flight number 1 by airline All pages with titles containing Flight 1 Flight 001...
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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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    Development of the Commercial Crew Program (category Space Act Agreement companies)
    an uncrewed orbital test flight in 2019. SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-1 2019 flight of Dragon 2 arrived at the International Space Station in March 2019 and...
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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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  • 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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  • John Insprucker (category SpaceX people)
    Principal Integration Engineer at SpaceX. Insprucker is a frequent host of SpaceX launch webcasts, including the COTS-2 demo flight (first private spacecraft...
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    31, 2012 Recovery of the EFT-1 Orion, December 5, 2014 Landing of SpaceX Demo-2, 2 August 2020 Artemis II Orion capsule well dock Underway Recovery Test...
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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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    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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    STS-129 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    com. Retrieved November 11, 2009. SpaceX (June 17, 2009). "COTS Status Update and Crew Capabilities" (PDF). www.spacex.com. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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  • eXperiment (CanX) program is a Canadian CubeSat nanosatellite program operated by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Space Flight Laboratory...
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