Dr J R Stockton wrote:

The SpaceX launch manifest shows three COTS Falcon-9/Dragon tests for
this year for NASA after the first test flight,

Perhaps an asterisk at the top was not noticed. SpaceX lists as Target
Date the date at which the hardware arrives at the launch site.
IIRC, the Inaugural Flight beat its currently-listed target date of
2009, albeit only by a gnat's-whisker. But perhaps the list refers to
the final arrival.

I get the sneaking suspicion that the asterisked part was added after a
several-month schedule slip was noticed, to make it look like they were
still on their originally announced timeline.
Whatever, their launch manifest looks pretty ambitious for a untested
booster, and they seem to be counting on everything going right with the
booster from flight one forwards.

Pat