2009 Upper Deck : Baseball Series One

2009 Upper Deck Baseball Series One was released on February 3, 2009. The odds of finding a "2008 Historic Firsts" card are approximately 1:4 hobby packs, 1:6 retail packs, and 1:10 blaster packs. The ten-card subset includes the first successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 1 vehicle on September 28, 2008. Falcon 1 is the first privately developed, fully liquid-fueled rocket to reach Earth orbit.

The card title erroneously describes the event as the "First Privately Developed Space Launch." The first privately developed orbital vehicle is the Northrop Grumman Pegasus Rocket, first launched on April 5, 1990. The air-launched three-stage solid-propellant rocket was developed Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC).

"The fourth time was evidently the charm for the SpaceX Falcon I spacecraft when on September 28, 2008, it became the first privately developed liquid-fuel rocket to successfully orbit the earth. Following three earlier launch efforts, the 70-foot, two-stage vehicle roared into space, delivering a 364 lb. payload safely into low-earth orbit after a picture-perfect liftoff from an Army base on Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, some 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. Founded in 2002 by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, SpaceX – an abbreviation for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation – is already working on larger, more powerful rockets including the 180-foot Falcon 9 vehicles, which are designed for future manned space flight."