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- Russia must preserve its pre-eminence in space
- We were the first to fly to space and have had a great number of achievements, and we mustnt lose our advantage," Medvedev said
- Russias importance will grow even more after the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis closes out the U.S. program this summer, leaving the Russian spacecraft as the only link to the station.
- "Our competition with America was spurring us to move faster
links – us space exploration expansionRUSSIAN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY IS ON THE BRINK – EXPANSION OF US SPACE PROGRAM EFFORTS AND TECHNOLOGY TRADES-OFF WITH THE GROWTH OF THE RUSSIAN SPACE SECTOR Associated Press 4/12/11, (VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV is a staff writer for Associated Press, “http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110412/ap_on_hi_te/eu_russia_gagarin. “ Medvedev: Space will remain a key Russian priority”. 6/23/11, google. AW) MOSCOW – Russia must preserve its pre-eminence in space, President Dmitry Medvedev declared Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The statement followed warnings by another cosmonaut that Russia risks losing its edge in space research by relying solely on Soviet-era achievements and doing little to develop new space technologies. Gagarin's 108-minute mission on April 12, 1961, remains a source of great national pride, and Russia marked the day with fanfare resembling Soviet-era celebrations. Schools had special lessons dedicated to Gagarin, billboards carried his smiling face and national television channels broadcast a flow of movies and documentaries about the flight. "We were the first to fly to space and have had a great number of achievements, and we mustn't lose our advantage," Medvedev said during a visit to Mission Control outside Moscow. On Monday, Svetlana Savitskaya, who flew space missions in 1982 and 1984 and became the first woman to make a spacewalk, harshly criticized the Kremlin for paying little attention to space research after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. "There's nothing new to be proud of in the last 20 years," said Savitskaya, a member of Russian parliament from the Communist Party. Russia has used the Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, whose designs date back to the 1960s, to send an increasing number of crew and cargo to the International Space Station. Russia's importance will grow even more after the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis closes out the U.S. program this summer, leaving the Russian spacecraft as the only link to the station. But Savitskaya and some other cosmonauts have warned that Russia has done little to build a replacement to the Soyuz and could quickly fall behind America after it builds a new-generation spaceship. Boris Chertok, the former deputy to Sergei Korolyov, the father of the Soviet space program, says it has become increasingly difficult for Russia's space industries to hire new personnel. Salaries in space industries are much lower than average salaries in banks and commercial companies," Chertok, 99, told reporters last week. "We need (more) people of Korolyov's caliber." Korolyov, a visionary scientist as well as a tough manager, led the team that put the world's first manmade satellite in orbit on October 4, 1957. He then spearheaded a massive effort to score another first with Gagarin's mission. "Our competition with America was spurring us to move faster to make the first human spaceflight," Valery Kubasov, a member of Korolyov's design team who later became a cosmonaut, told The Associated Press. INCREASING US AEROSPACE COMPETITIVENESS TRADES-OFF WITH RUSSIAN AEROSPACE SECTOR – SQUEEZES RUSSIA OUT OF GLOBAL MARKET ELENKOV 1995 [Detelin S. - professor at the School of Management and Business and director of the Center for Eastern European Business and Economic Research (CEEBER) @ Adelphi University, “Russian Aerospace MNCs in Global Competition,” Columbia Journal of World Business, Summer] ttate In short, the strong Russian aerospace military sector was nurtured at the expense of the largely neglected civilian sector. Military-oriented R&D and production enjoyed preferential treatment and received special resources. At the same time, the civilian sector was assigned low priority. Hence, the determined political leadership has been one of the factors that have made the aerospace/military sector the most successful part of the Russian economy. Science and technology is also one of the fields in which Russia has done world-class work. For many years this country has directed much of its money and human talent into technical and scientific endeavors. According to recently published statistical data, Russia has about 1.7 million scientific workers and 7 million engineers, which is more than twice the numbers of trained scientists and engineers in the United States.[ 11] However, science and technology in the former Soviet Union were not really designed to advance the quality of human life, but to help in solving the problems specified by the authorities. That meant first and foremost supporting the aerospace/military programs. Russian expertise in space and military technology is well-known throughout the world. The success of the first Russian artificial satellite Sputnik 1 has become legendary. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Russian military technology and products are roughly on a par with U.S. technology and products in areas such as aerodynamics, conventional and nuclear warheads, power sources and laser technology. In some strategic weapon systems, like ballistic missile defense and surface-to-air missiles, the Russians have even appeared to excel.[ 12] It is a tradition in the Russian aerospace/military sector to implement designs that stress simplicity, commonality, performance and economy. One example is the engine for the MiG-21 which contains about one-tenth as many parts as the engine used in F-4, its U.S. equivalent of the day.[ 13] As a result of the aforementioned historical developments, several Russian companies associated with the aerospace/military sector have built a capability to offer high-performance products at prices significantly below the level of the competition. In order to study the specificity of competitive strengths, strategic priorities, and forms of multinational business operations of these companies, I conducted exploratory research in Russia during the summer and fall of 1993 and the summer of 1994. In particular, I utilized a combination of interviews, direct observation and review of official company documents. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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