 The Draft Statement of Work for the CEV was issued by NASA on December 9, 2004, and slightly more than one month later, on January 21, 2005, NASA issued a Draft Request For Proposal (RFP).The Final RFP was issued on March 1, 2005, with the potential bidders being asked to answer by May 2, 2005.NASA had planned to have a suborbital or an Earth orbit fly-off called "Flight Application of Spacecraft Technologies" (FAST) between two teams' CEV designs before September 1, 2008.