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Organizations that contribute to space colonization include: The Space Studies Institute funds the study of space habitats. The National Space Society is an organization with the vision of people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth. The NSS also maintains an extensive library of full-text articles and books on space settlement.[70] 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.[71] The Mars Society promotes Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan and the settlement of Mars. 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.[72] Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a student organization founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton.[73] Foresight Nanotechnology Institute – Guiding nanotechnology research to improve fuels, smart materials, uniforms and environments for the pursuit of space exploration and colonization.[74] 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.[citation needed] 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.[75][76](registration required) In June 2013 the BIS began a project [77] to re-examine the space colony studies of the 1970s and revise them in view of advances made since then. |
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