Space advocacy

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Space advocacy is a political position that favors the exploration, utilization, and colonization of outer space.

There are organizations dedicated to space advocacy, and these are often active in lobbying governments for increased funding in space-related activities. They also recruit members, fund projects, and provide information for their membership and interested visitors.

Organizations

• The Alliance to Rescue Civilization plans to establish backups of human civilization on the Moon and other locations away from Earth. [1] (http://www.arc-space.org/)
• The Artemis Project plans to set up a private lunar surface station. [2] (http://www.asi.org/)
• The British Interplanetary Society, founded in 1933, is the world's longest established space society. [3] (http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/)
• The Living Universe Foundation has a detailed plan in which the entire galaxy is colonized. [4] (http://www.luf.org/)
• The Mars Society promotes Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct plan and the settlement of Mars. [5] (http://www.marssociety.org/)
• The National Space Institute
• The National Space Society is an organization with the vision of "people living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth." [6] (http://www.nss.org/)
• The Planetary Society is the largest space interest group, but has an emphasis on robotic exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. [7] (http://www.planetary.org/)
• The Space Frontier Foundation promotes strong free market, capitalist views about space development. [8] (http://www.space-frontier.org/)
• The Space Studies Institute was founded by Gerard K. O'Neill to fund the study of space habitats. [9] (http://www.ssi.org/)
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a student organization founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton. [10] (http://www.seds.org/)