As part of its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) initiative -- a program designed to spur the development of U.S. commercial spaceflight. The money will be used to advance commercial space flight, including work on launch vehicles and spacecrafts. The funds are the second round of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) program, which started in 2009 and is intended to "accelerate the availability of U.S. commercial crew transportation capabilities and reduce the gap in American human spaceflight capability."