The development of these vehicles was under a fixed price milestone-based program, meaning that each company that received a funded award had a list of milestones with a dollar value attached to them that they didn't receive until after they had successful completed the milestone.
Like COTS, CCDev is also a fixed price milestone-based developmental program that requires some private investment.
He said the contract SpaceX won was "unusual" in that it was fixed price and milestone based.
Organs were fixed in Finefix (Milestone medical, Italy), paraffin embedded and cut into 4 µm sections.
Tumors were fixed in Finefix (Milestone, Italy) and embedded in paraffin.
Tumors were fixed in FineFix (Milestone, Bazainville, France) for paraffin inclusion.
Tumors were excised at day 14, fixed in Finefix (Milestone, Italy), paraffin-embedded, and cut into 5-μm-thick sections.
Tissue specimens were first washed and then fixed in Finefix (Milestone, Torre Baldone (BG), Italy) for 24 h.
At week 4, the lungs from control, BLM (positive control), S44563 and S44563-BLM groups were collected for histology and were fixed in Finefix (Milestone Medical, Sorisole, Italy) and paraffin embedded.
The major organs (i.e., liver, kidneys, spleen, small intestine, brain, heart and lungs) of nude mice grafted with LS174-T human colon xenografts and injected with squalenoyl nanocomposites or free drugs were excised at day 22, fixed in Finefix (Milestone, Italy), paraffin-embedded, and cut into 5-μm-thick sections.
