Talk:Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships

Copy-paste from NASA press releases

A lot of this has been copied and pasted from NASA press releases. This is not a copyright violation, because US Government material is not subject to copyright. However, the material is more than a year old and some is already out of date. Taking the time to paraphrase the material and create appropriate Wikilinks will improve the article. ubiquity (talk) 18:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

The main source is NASA's website. The NextSTEP (first) is up to date because they all finished and did not get any more money. There is no money on NextSTEP-2 (yet) because NASA is still negotiating. If you want details of the equipment being developed see this press release

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nextstep-partnerships-develop-ground-prototypes

Andrew Swallow (talk) 16:00, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Restructure ?

Next STEP-2 work and contract awards seems divided into the different appendices A->E : [1]

• Appendix A: Habitation Systems
• Appendix B: FabLab
• Appendix C: Power and Propulsion Studies
• Appendix D: In-Situ Resource Utilization
• Appendix E: Human Landing System
• Appendix F: Trash Compaction & Processing

Would it not be useful to organise tech-details/content/progress/participants/awards under the A->E headings (eg to facilitate a furture article split) - rather than just a single chronological listing of NASA actions ? - Rod57 (talk) 11:49, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

... I've made a start with existing content. - Rod57 (talk) 12:03, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Additional Next STEP-2 Appendices

There are additional Next STEP-2 Appendices whose dollar awards are larger than the combined Appendices A-E and that support the development of space habitats. It would be useful to see the addition of Appendices G-I to the page. knowledgeinterested (talk) 16:50, 26 February 2024 (UTC)