
Commercial Mission Patches 2010-2016
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, a new initiative was started to entice private companies to invest in space travel. Several companies accepted the challenge and began to develop vehicles to ferry supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. SpaceX was the first to successfully launch a spacecraft into orbit. Founded by famed billioniare businnessman Elon Musk, SpaceX developed the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule for ISS resupply missions. Orbital Sciences Corporation, now known as Orbital ATK, was next to send a mission to the ISS. Commercial spaceflight is poised to soon overtake NASA in the race for space. Several companies are competing to develop spacecraft for Earth orbit and beyond. Billionaire RIchard Branson of Virgin Galactic hopes to soon make space tourism a reality and is currently developing spacecraft to take paying passengers into low Earth orbit. SpaceX is developing a giant rocket ship that will rival the Apollo Staurn V and has announced their plans to establish a human colony on the planet Mars.



SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft
Qualification Unit
June 4, 2010SpaceX COTS
Demo Flight 1
December 8, 2010SpaceX COTS
Demo Flight 2
May 22, 2012


SpaceX CRS-1
October 8, 2012SpaceX CRS-2
March 1, 2013SpaceX Cassiope
September 29, 2013


SpaceX SES-8
December 3, 2013SpaceX Thaicom 6
January 6, 2014SpaceX CRS-3
April 18, 2014


SpaceX Orbcomm OG2
Mission 1
July 14, 2014SpaceX AsiaSat 8
August 5, 2014SpaceX AsiaSat 6
September 7, 2014


SpaceX CRS-4
September 21, 2014SpaceX CRS-5
January 10, 2015SpaceX Deep Space Climate
Observatory (DSCOVR)
February 11, 2015


SpaceX ABS-3A
Eutelsat 115 B
March 2, 2015SpaceX CRS-6
April 14, 2015SpaceX THALES
April 27, 2015


SpaceX Falcon 9 Landing
May 6, 2015SpaceX CRS-7
Destroyed During LaunchJune 28, 2015
SpaceX Orbcom OG2
Mission 2
December 21, 2015


SpaceX
Dragon Pad Abort Test
December 21, 2015SpaceX Jason-3
January 17, 2016SpaceX SES-9
March 4, 2016


SpaceX CRS-8
April 8, 2016SpaceX JCSAT-14
May 6, 2016SpaceX Thaicom 8
May 27, 2016

