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Falcon 9 carrying the first Dragon spacecraft climbing away from Cape Canaveral
2006

NASA COTS Partnership Awarded

Demonstrated that private industry could deliver what only governments had before — at dramatically lower cost and higher cadence.

Photo: Chris Thompson / SpaceX · CC0

2006: NASA COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) award (~$278M initial for demos; led to larger CRS). Public-private partnership model that proved commercial providers could reliably service government needs at lower cost/higher cadence.

Source: nasa.gov

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