A dense, beryllium-framed inertial platform floating its gyros on gas bearings, aligned by infrared beams from hundreds of feet away, and orchestrated by a sprawling network of ground equipment—this was the ST124-M system that gave the Saturn V its sense of direction on the road to the Moon.
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