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Bearium On Shuttle Crawler

Early designs of Space Shuttle Crawler bushings experienced sudden catastrophic roller bearing failures, threatening mission timing. The installation of MetalTek's proprietary Bearium B-10 product on sleeve bearings has prevented the failures experienced in early crawler designs, and are used to this day on the Space Shuttle system.

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