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[i]Proposals for this broad agency announcement (BAA), part of NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) program, are due March 25. Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said the agency hopes to make awards in May to allow the six-month studies to begin by July. After that, NASA could select some of those concepts for additional work, including hardware development. The studies are intended to fit into NASA's existing reference architecture, which has focused on three-stage landing systems involving a tug, descent stage and ascent stage. Gerstenmaier said that NASA will wait to study an ascent vehicle to see if human rating requirements can be restricted to just that component of the overall system. Gerstenmaier said there's some willingness to consider alternative architectures, although not within this specific announcement. "We're not totally closed if there are some proposals that come in that are different, that want to reflect a totally different architecture," he said. "They won't necessarily be part of this BAA study, but we'll take those off to the side." "We'll go take that proposal that's outside, we'll figure out another instrument and a way to work with them to see what's there, and then trade that later against this architecture to see if it's better," he said later. ...the architecture that Gerstenmaier presented at the industry day still called for landing people on the moon by 2028.[/i]
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