SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT: FROM PLANETARY TO SPACE MINING
The article considers sustainable mountain development as one of the most important problems of achieving global stability as a solution to the contradiction between the growing needs of mankind and the presence of limits of the biosphere in their provision. It is expected that sustainable mountain development will continue in both the planetary and space dimensions, and these processes will unfold in close cooperation. It is necessary to prepare in such a way for the use of space objects and their resources so as not to violate international space law and to develop national legislation allowing for non-commercial space mining. Having joined the space industry, sustainable space mining will contribute to the formation of extraterrestrial basis of the future wide space exploration by mankind.