The wiring bundles bear various identifying wraps; the most informative (to me
at least) is the wrap which contains the missile's serial number. Here we see
that the serial number is "CC-2031" (the "CC" referring to "Chrysler Corporation", whose missile division
manufactured Redstone missiles; the Redstone Arsenal also manufactured
Redstones, using the prefix "RS").
It seems odd that the center unit and tail unit both seem to be
from CC-2007, but the aft unit is from CC-2031.
Apparently, after the missile system was decommissioned, there was little
effort made to keep components from individual missiles together as a unit.
The Kansas Cosmosphere has a
combined aft unit
and warhead section; the warhead
section is from CC-2013, while the aft
unit is from CC-2025.
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