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Milton B. Trageser, J. Halcomb Laning and Richard H. Battin admire a model of a space probe.

Original Caption: "Key workers on the Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe just announced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology are seen with model of the vehicle. Left to right, Milton Trageser, Waltham, who was Group Leader for the project; Dr. J.H. Laning, Stoneham, Deputy Associate Director of the Laboratory, who performed much of the theoretical work concerned with the project, and Dr. Richard H. Battin, Lexington, mathematician who figures out orbital paths and navigational techniques for the proposed space trip. All are assigned to M.I.T.'s Instumentation Laboratory."