Colonizing Outer Space/Colonization/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