NASA's not ready to send bunk beds into space just yet.
Instead, the agency announced it would like to build a kind of solar-power station, called the "Power and Propulsion Element" (PPE), by 2022. The design and maker of this first-stage power supply will be picked through a competitive bidding process, in which NASA will request proposals from commercial partners.
Eventually, that PPE will power a full-scale "lunar orbital platform gateway": a moon-adjacent version of a space station.
But the new moon station wouldn't be just for astronauts. Because the gateway will be built by a to-be-determined private company, that enterprise could also ferry civilians there. In a way, NASA would kind of be reserving spots in a space dorm built by a commercial entity.
The space dorm could run for more than a decade, NASA says. But first they have to decide who will build it.