Authors: Boris Yevseyevich Chertok,  Asif A Siddiqi,
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: rocket, industry, creating, volume, people, rockets
Number of Pages: 698
Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN-10: 1470015080
ISBN-13: 9781470015084

ContentsSeries Introduction by Asif A. Siddiqi ixIntroduction to Volume II xxiA Few Notes about Transliteration and Translation xxiiiList of Abbreviations xxvThree New Technologies, Three State Committees 1The Return 25From Usedom Island to Gorodomlya Island 43Institute No. 88 and Director Gonor 75The Alliance with Science 93Department U 109Face to Face with the R-1 Missile 119The R-1 Missile Goes Into Service 141Managers and Colleagues 155NII-885 and Other Institutes 177Air Defense Missiles 199Flying by the Stars 219Missiles of the Cold War’s First Decade 239On the First Missile Submari

Author: Jean-Louis Racine
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: central, asia, europe, eastern, quality, competitiveness, harnessing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2011-05-05
ISBN-10: 0821385097
ISBN-13: 9780821385098

Standards are everywhere, yet go mostly unnoticed. They define how products, processes, and people interact, assessing these entities' features and performance and signaling their level of quality and reliability. They can convey important benefits to trade, productivity, and technological progress and play an important role in the health and safety of individual consumers and the environment. Firms' ability to produce competitive products depends on the availability of adequate quality-support services. A "national quality infrastructure" denotes the chain of public and private services (stan