With the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTS_Demo_Flight_1" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COTS Demo Flight 1">second launch</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Falcon 9">Falcon 9</a> and the first launch of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_1" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SpaceX Dragon 1">Dragon</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SpaceX">SpaceX</a> becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spacecraft">spacecraft</a>.<sup about="#mwt61" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_8#cite_note-10" id="mwAR8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASA">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt58" class="citation news cs1" id="mwCCI"><a class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/space.flight/index.html" id="mwCCM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"A space-age first: A commercial craft returns from low-Earth orbit"</a>. <a href="./CNN" id="mwCCQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="CNN">CNN</a>. 8 December 2010.</cite><span about="#mwt58" class="Z3988" id="mwCCU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=A+space-age+first%3A+A+commercial+craft+returns+from+low-Earth+orbit&amp;rft.date=2010-12-08&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2010%2FUS%2F12%2F08%2Fspace.flight%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+8"></span></span>