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There are many different individuals and Organization s dedicated to space advocacy. They are usually active in educating the publichttp://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/ on space related subjects, lobbying governmentshttp://chapters.marssociety.org/usa/dc/pdfSRC/MarsSociTest2003.pdfhttp://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-28-2007/0004617647&EDATE=for increased funding in space-related activities or supporting private space activitieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tourism_Society. They also recruit members, fund projects, and provide information for their membership and interested visitors. They are sub-divided into three categories depending on their primary work: practice, advocacy, and theory. ADVOCACY Organizations that focus mainly on space advocacy, education, and lobbying activities.
THEORY Focus on advocating a theory for space exploration or colonization.
HISTORY Historians agree that space flight and especially manned space flight was not inevitable, but rather that society was convinced of the need for it by a few revolutionaries. These “revolutionaries” were primarily members of the Russianhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovskyhttp://www.astronautix.com/astros/korolev.htm, Americanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard, Britishhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Interplanetary_Society, and Germanhttp://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.htmlhttp://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/gerketry.htm science communities and starting in the 1930s began to share their individual plans for a future in space to their respective governments and the publichttp://www.hobbyspace.com/Active/history.html#Burrows. Influential books and other media began to emerge which included works containing illustrations by Chesley Bonestell (based on Wernher Von Braun 's designs) such as The Conquest of Space ( 1949 )and magazine articles including the " Man Will Conquer Space Soon! " series of article in Colliers magazine between 1952 and 1954 . Television shows included Walt Disney 's Man in Space and Man and the Moon in 1955 , and Mars and Beyond in 1957 . REFERENCES |
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