Space Colonization - Involved Organizations

Involved Organizations

Organizations that contribute to space colonization include:

• The Space Studies Institute funds the study of space habitats.
• The Space Frontier Foundation performs space advocacy including strong free market, capitalist views about space development.
• The Living Universe Foundation has a detailed plan in which the entire galaxy is colonized.
• The Colonize the Cosmos site advocates orbital colonies.
• 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 Settlement Institute is searching for ways to make space colonization happen in our lifetimes.
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a student organization founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton.
• Foresight Nanotechnology Institute – Guiding nanotechnology research to improve fuels, smart materials, uniforms and environments for the pursuit of space exploration and colonization.
• The Alliance to Rescue Civilization plans to establish backups of human civilization on the Moon and other locations away from Earth.
• The Artemis Project plans to set up a private lunar surface station.
• The British Interplanetary Society promotes ideas for the exploration and utilization of space, including a Mars colony, future propulsion systems (see Project Daedalus), terraforming, and locating other habitable worlds.