Moon Society and Artemis Society Endorse Space Settlement Initiative Washington - Apr 30, 2003 Two leading space activist foundations, The Moon Society and the Artemis Society, have endorsed the Space Settlement Initiative . The timing of the endorsements is particularly significant. Following the Columbia accident, several other key space advocacy groups now say they are ready to publicly espouse the idea of space settlement - after years of being afraid to do so very loudly for fear it sounded too "way out". A recent meeting of those space activist groups strongly endorsed space settlement as a goal but, as...