Description

Photograph of a diagram of a space probe. Stamp on verso reads "Instrumentation Laboratory M.I.T, Date: May 2 1960 Print No. 17020". Original Credit Line: M.I.T. Instrumentation Lab, 17020.

Original Caption: "External drawing of the Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe developed at the Instrumentation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the deep-space vehicle that M.I.T. scientists and engineers believe could travel to within 5,000 miles of the planet Mars, photograph 40 percent of its surface, and return to earth. (Photo courtesy M.I.T. Instrumentation Lab)".