The two stages

The two stages and Dragon capsule for the second Falcon 9 were built at SpaceX's manufacturing facility at Hawthorne, California, and were delivered to SpaceX's facilities at Cape Canaveral in August.[4]

Target launch date was for the end of 2010 with COTS Demo 2 and 3 being rescheduled to 2011.[4]

A full wet dress rehearsal was conducted on September 15, 2010, and launch was targeted for no earlier than December 7, 2010.[5]

On November 22, 2010, SpaceX announced that it had received a license for spacecraft re-entry from the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation for the flight. It is the first such license issued to a private enterprise.[6]

A successful static test fire was performed by SpaceX on December 4, 2010. This was the third attempt to do so, as the first two attempts were automatically aborted. The first attempt was on December 3, 2010, but the test was automatically aborted one second before ignition due to a high-pressure reading


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