Social, historical and international aspects of space research

Abstract

Men has completed the phase “globalization” on Earth by conquering almost all parts of the globe, by using almost all resources offered by this planet, in a collaborative way involving all habitants. Now it is time to start founding establishments out of this world, i.e. “spatialization” to mean “becoming citizens of space”. In this study we first discuss the mechanism of globalization and passage to spatialization. We discuss also the benefits of this new phase to habitants of Earth. Examples are given to show how space research helps to increase the level of comfort of human beings on Earth. It is also discussed that although space research is an expensive activity, it may be broken down to smaller pieces to enable all countries and private companies to enter into this race. Such a breakdown will help more even distribution of wealth among nations and peoples on Earth.