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FAG and Discovery Space Shuttle
10.08.2005

FAG and Discovery Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle Discovery that brought some highly spectacular pictures from her most recent flight, is equipped with FAG bearings. Made from nitrogen-alloyed special steel and fitted with ceramic balls and rollers, as usual, the bearings operated reliably in the turbo pumps which supply the combustion chambers with a fuel mixture of liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

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