Like COTS, CCDev is also a fixed price milestone-based developmental program that requires some private investment.
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.
Doug Purdy, the director of developer products, painted Facebook's future with great enthusiasm on Friday, when shares nearly touched the half-price milestone.
So the big government contractors really hate the fixed-price, milestone-based approach".
He said the contract SpaceX won was "unusual" in that it was fixed price and milestone based.
(Mr. Allen paid $14,995 for the car, but Toyota later sent him a check for the purchase price to commemorate the milestone).
But while Saudi Arabia's decision to call time on supporting the oil price marks an important milestone in the industry, oil's self-stabilising price mechanism remains very much intact - prices fall, production drops, supply falls, prices rise.
They could, though, be thankful that oil is still priced in dollars, making the milestone of triple-digit oil prices noteworthy at all.
When oil prices were approaching the milestone of $100 a barrel a few weeks ago, OPEC, the global oil cartel, expanded production and sought to jawbone prices down.
This marks a new milestone: asking prices were 0.2percentt higher in April than a year ago.
