Colonizing Outer Space - Space Advocacy

Space Advocacy

Space advocacy organizations:

• The Alliance to Rescue Civilization plans to establish backups of human civilization on the Moon and other locations away from Earth.
• The Colonize the Cosmos site advocates orbital colonies.
• The Artemis Project plans to set up a private lunar surface station.
• The British Interplanetary Society, founded in 1933, is the world's longest established space society.
• The Living Universe Foundation has a detailed plan in which the entire galaxy is colonized.
• The Mars Society promotes Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan and the settlement of Mars.
• The National Space Society is an organization with the vision of "people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth."
• The Planetary Society is the largest space interest group, but has an emphasis on robotic exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life.
• The Space Frontier Foundation promotes strong free market, capitalist views about space development.
• The Space Studies Institute was founded by Gerard K. O'Neill to fund the study of space habitats.
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a student organization founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton.
• Foresight Nanotechnology Institute - The space challenge