Аннотация:A new strategy of development of the world community was adopted by the leaders of 179 countries in June 1992. It was called the sustainable development strategy. Economic growth stability and, in a wider sense, social development stability should be attained without unreasonable degradation of nature, preserving, first of all, the Earth’s biosphere. The orientation is favored, which ensures progress not only on the Earth, but also beyond it. K.E.Tsiolkovsky Academy of astronautics established on March 28, 1991, is an organization, in which these new forms of space activity should be developed, which corresponds most of all to new thinking and new social and economic problems. Key words: sustainable development, space exploration, new thinking.