war on Earth, we would urge the nations of Earth to study and discuss carefully the implementation of further limitations on military activities in space. VI. CONCLUSIONS The changing nature of space technology is projected to result in routine and productive activities in space related to the needs of terrestrial society. Routine, inexpensive access to space through the use of new transportation systems (such as the U.S. Space Shuttle and the European Space Agency's Ariane launch vehicle) will bring about economically valuable returns from a wide variety of potential applications. One analysis conservatively estimates annual revenues from space activities of $15,000 million in the year 2000, and more than $70,000 million in the year 2010, producing almost 2 million new jobs just in the United States in 2010. These figures cannot begin to indicate the significance such new possibilities will have for developing nations. The potentials of outer space for the improvement of the human condition everywhere are unlimited. Developing countries cannot afford to neglect space technology and space science. Although the highly industrialized countries will necessarily make the initial investments to develop the resources available beyond the biosphere of the Earth, such ventures should become international in scope and character so that their benefits can reach all of humanity at the earliest possible time. The ultimate terrestrial importance of the development of space resources may turn out to be, not the materials or the energy which will flow from space to the Earth, nor the new habitats created in space, but rather the certain, tangible, and visible knowledge that secure, new, expanding wealth can be created by humanity from the commonly available energy of the Sun, the soil of the ground beneath our feet (whether we stand on the Earth, the Moon, or any other celestial body), and the cumulative and shared skills of the entire human race.
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