1. Any such venture should be an international collaboration between industrialized and less industrialized countries through the United Nations or any such international organization, if possible. 2. Space laws should be designed to protect the global interests of people and their environment. 3. A set of specific priorities should be set in order to solve the urgent problems plaguing humanity. 4. While political, social and economic institutional rearrangements may be necessary, societies must be protected from total destruction. 5. In order to maximize the benefits, different stages of space science and technological developments should be set in terms of financial commitments for specific projects, which will accelerate developments in the Third World. As it is, whether we know it or not, imperceptibly and slowly, the world is affected by space development almost every day, either through space satellites circling the Earth or travelling in space or through a vast array of research and development projects being carried out to test the various applications in human affairs. These research and development projects are testing the following: 1. Recovery of material resources from outer space, such as the Moon, asteroids or other planets, 2. Production of new types of materials outside the Earth’s environment and gravitational field, 3. The development of new industrial processes not possible on Earth. Space and Trans-national Development Since the orbiting of Sputnik 1, space developments, with all their subsequent scientific and technological innovations, have influenced a vast array of fields such as communications, medicine, food production, weather, navigation, education, geological studies, ecology, transportation, etc., not to mention astronomy, physics and planetary science. It is not possible to expedite the process of development globally in order to meet the specific desired and desirable needs of people living in different cultures. Already some of the benefits are reaped by a large number of countries, particularly in the field of communications; for example, the Early Bird launched in 1965 and other satellites, such as Landsat, provide information for planningand development. These ventures have already proved that with trans-national cooperation the economic, technological and resource capabilities of many countries can be increased for their mutual benefit. As can be expected, a great deal of investment in these projects has come from a few industrially advanced countries; yet directly or indirectly, most of the countries of the world have benefited from these initial stages of space application.
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