Colonizing Outer Space/Colonization/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. [1]
• The Colonize the Cosmos site [2] advocates orbital colonies.
• The Artemis Project plans to set up a private lunar surface station. [3]
• The British Interplanetary Society, founded in 1933, is the world's longest established space society. [4]
• The Living Universe Foundation has a detailed plan in which the entire galaxy is colonized. [5]
• The Mars Society promotes Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan and the settlement of Mars. [6]
• The National Space Society is an organization with the vision of "people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth." [7]
• The Planetary Society is the largest space interest group, but has an emphasis on robotic exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. [8]
• The Space Frontier Foundation promotes strong free market, capitalist views about space development. [9]
• The Space Studies Institute was founded by Gerard K. O'Neill to fund the study of space habitats. [10]
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a student organization founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton. [11]
• Foresight Nanotechnology Institute - The space challenge