# SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with COTS Demo Flight 1 (high quality)

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:43 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 8. This is first demonstration flight for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, which will provide cargo flights to the International Space Station.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: NASAKennedy
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceX_Falcon_9_launch_with_COTS_Demo_Flight_1_(high_quality).ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASAKennedy
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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