Development
It was number 124 in a series of similar devices, including the ST-120 (used in the Pershing missile), the ST-90 (used on the Jupiter and on early Saturn I flights), and the ST-80 (used in the Redstone). They are descendants of the LEV-3 of the German V-2 rocket. The ST-124 was designed by Marshall Space Flight Center and manufactured by Bendix Corporation, Eclipse-Pioneer Division, in Teterboro, NJ. It took 9 men 22 to 24 weeks to assemble an ST-124, and 70 percent of that time was spent installing about 3,000 wires.
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