Involved organizations




Organizations that contribute to space colonization include:

  • The Space Studies Institute funds the study of space habitats, especially so-called O'Neill Cylinders.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • SpaceX is developing extensive spaceflight transportation infrastructure with the express purpose of enabling long-term human settlement of Mars.
  • 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.
    • In June 2013 the BIS began a project to re-examine the space colony studies of the 1970s and revise them in view of advances made since then.
  • Asgardia (nation) – an organization searching to circumvent limitations placed by Outer Space Treaty.
  • The Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) promotes space exploration and colonization, and fosters collaboration in space.

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