Main article: Space stations and habitats in popular cultureAlthough established space colonies are a stock element in science fiction stories, fictional works that explore the themes, social or pract ...
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 ...
A corollary to the Fermi paradox—"nobody else is doing it"—is the argument that because no evidence of alien colonization technology exists, it is statistically unlikely to even be possible using th ...
The first known work on space colonization was The Brick Moon, a work of fiction published in 1869 by Edward Everett Hale, about an inhabited artificial satellite.The Russian schoolmaster and physicis ...
The most famous attempt to build an analogue to a self-sufficient colony is Biosphere 2, which attempted to duplicate Earth's biosphere. BIOS-3 is another closed ecosystem, completed in 1972 in Krasno ...
Space colonization can roughly be said to be possible when the necessary methods of space colonization become cheap enough (such as space access by cheaper launch systems) to meet the cumulative funds ...
Location is a frequent point of contention between space colonization advocates. The location of colonization can be on a physical body or free-flying:On a planet, natural satellite, or asteroidIn orb ...
There are two main types of space colonies:Surface-based examples that would exist on or below the surfaces of planets, moons, etc.Space habitats — free-floating stations that would orbit a planet, m ...
There will be a very high initial investment cost for space colonies and any other permanent space infrastructure due to the high cost of getting into space. However, proponents argue that the long-te ...
Survival of human civilization Main article: Space and survivalThe primary argument that calls for space colonization as a first-order priority is as insurance of the survival of human civilization, b ...
Space colonization (also called space settlement, or extraterrestrial colonization) is permanent human habitation outside of Earth.Many arguments have been made for space colonization. The two most co ...
