The transition of the world community to sustainable development will require not only the achievement of global sustainability, but also the same type of development outside the planet, especially in the case of space mining. By joining the cosmonautics, sustainable space mining will contribute to the formation of an extraterrestrial basis for the future wide exploration of space by mankind and a new way of social and natural interaction. This will be, on the one hand, a continuation of

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... material production, but on the other hand, a completely new process due to the interaction of man with the extraterrestrial environment. A mode of production will begin to take shape, increasingly different from the current "planetary-production" way, which is appropriate to give the name of "productioncosmic" and the main features of which have yet to be identified. However, since humanity will simultaneously continue to inhabit the planet and settle beyond it, the aggregate way of interaction between nature and society will be their mutual earth-space combination (complex). Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 25, 2020 70 Preservation of the biosphere and survival of mankind is the cardinal purpose of the transition to sustainable development. The best-case scenario for the future of our planet and mankind living on it involves the preservation of the biosphere as the natural basis of life of all the living and sophont (Bobylev, 2017) . Moreover, this includes the life of the population and a significant part of the biodiversity in such vulnerable ecosystems as mountainous regions (for example, 43 constituent regions of the Russian Federation have mountain ranges and uplands, and the total area occupied by them is 53.6% of the territory of Russia). The mountains occupy about one-fourth of the planet's surface and are home to 12% of the world's population. They affect all processes in the rest of the planet. Mountainous areas are important for the existence of civilization, and for the evolution of the entire global ecosystem, which was highlighted in the Agenda 21 adopted by UNCED. Mountainous areas more than other habitats are affected by the adverse effects of climate change, as well as the consequences of disasters in mountainous areas, such as flash floods, including floods from mountain lakes, as well as landslides, mudflows and earthquakes. At the same time, the mountains are sources of mineral resources and sources of fresh water supply, as well as hydropower resources (70% of fresh water reserves and 50% of deposits of precious and non-ferrous metals are concentrated in the mountains). This feature of mountainous areas requires severe special restrictions on economic activity and the implementation of "sustainable mining development" (Resolution, 2007). Therefore, in the documents of the UN dedicated to SD strategy, special attention was paid to the mountainous areas. Mountainous regions are characterized by the fact that they are one of the most ecologically vulnerable areas, and at the same time, they are the ones that are affected by the development of the most large-scale environmental management processes that cause negative impacts on the surrounding nature and people. "Sustainable mountain development" and "sustainable development of mountainous areas," although close, but not the same concepts. The latter concept focuses on mountainous areas, while the term "sustainable mining development" characterizes SD as mountainous areas and other territorial areas where sustainable mining can take place, for example, on plains or even outside the planet. This difference appears due to the fact that mining is associated not only with mountains and hills, but with a special human activity in the development of the Earth's interior in any other place on the planet, i.е., underground mining of minerals. Therefore, mining as an activity for the development of the Earth's interior allows both its planetaryterrestrial and cosmic expansion. Mining, as a rule, is considered as a field of activity on the use of the Earth's crust for the extraction of minerals, their primary processing, as well as related scientific research.