Groups
of highly motivated and educated people
are
capable of great advances in the space field.
Professional
and Social
American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA) is a professional
group for aeronautics or astronautics. AIAA
Planetary Defense
Conference key recommendations.
Space
Exploration Alliance is a group of thirteen
premier space advocacy groups.
Space
Studies Institute is opening the energy
and material resources of space for human benefit.
Space
Foundation advances
the exploration, development and use of space for
the benefit of all humankind.
Mars
Institute was
unveiled at the World Space Congress; its mission
is to further the understanding of Mars.
The
Planetary Society
was founded by Carl Sagan,
Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman in 1980 to encourage
the exploration of space and search for extraterrestrial
life.
National
Space Society promotes
change to bring about the day humans live and work
in space.
The
Spaceward Foundation
creates challenges to reinvigorate the nation's
interest in space.
SETI
Institute mission
is to explore, understand and explain the origin,
nature and prevalence of life in the universe.
AMSAT,
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, was founded
in 1969 to foster Amateur Radio participation in
space.
Mars
Society actively
works with its members to advance the exploration
and settlement of Mars.