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J. Halcomb Laning, Milton B. Trageser and Richard H. Battin discuss a model of a space probe. A graphic that reads "Martian Reconnaissance" is displayed behind them.

Original Caption: "These three scientists from the Greater Boston area were key workers in the development of the Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe recently announced as a possiblity for future round-trips to Mars. Shown above with a model of the interplanetary vehicle which may some day photograph the surface of Mars are, left to right, Dr. J.H. Laning, Stoneham, who did much of the theoretical work regarding the vehicle; Milton B. Trageser, Waltham, group leader on the project, and Dr. Richard H. Battin, Lexington, who worked out the details of orbital paths for possible future space probes. All are members of the M.I.T. Instrumentation Laboratory. Laboratory is headed by world-famed developer of intertial guidance, Dr. Charles S. Draper."