Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit
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The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX. After using it for ground tests to rate Dragon's shape and mass in various tests, SpaceX launched it into low Earth orbit on the maiden flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, on June 4, 2010. SpaceX used the launch to evaluate the aerodynamic conditions on the spacecraft and performance of the carrier rocket in a real-world launch scenario, ahead of Dragon flights for NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. The spacecraft orbited the Earth over 300 times before decaying from orbit and reentering the atmosphere on 27 June.
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Falcon 9 - Installing rocket motors
Launch pad 40 awaiting Falcon 9 rocket
Falcon 9 Rocket Launchpad
Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral (aerial)| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| incident | incident | [[1]] | Wikidata | ||
| commons | image | Falcon 9 - Installing rocket motors | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Launch pad 40 awaiting Falcon 9 rocket | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Falcon 9 Rocket Launchpad | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral (aerial) | Commons | ||
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