The Moon. Resources, future development and settlement / Луна. Ресурсы, будущее развитие и заселение

The promise of the Spacefaring Age - the era of human activities in space - is that it will link human expertise to the unlimited resources of space. When that linkage is established, the people of Earth will be supplied with an abundance of energy and material resources from space; the solar system will be explored in depth; human settlements will be established on multiple planets and moons; and voyages to the stars will be undertaken. The present “closed Earth” mindset - of limits to human potential related to the depletion of Earth’s resources and the vital need to preserve Earth’s environment - will be replaced by a much grander “open space’’ vision of broad-scale human advancements based upon access to unlimited resources and the opening of endless frontiers. <...>