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Black and white photo of Charles Stark Draper standing and inspecting a prototype of the navigation system to be used on the Apollo space missions. Original caption: "From the Office of Public Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Mass., Telephone: UN 4-6900. Ext. 2705. Dr. Charles S. Draper, professor and head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of M.I.T's Instrumentation Laboratory, inspects a mockup of the guidance and navigation system the Laboratory is designing -- in collaboration with participating contractors -- for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Project Apollo spacecraft that will take three Americans to the moon and back." Original credit line: stamped by the Instrumentation Laboratory, M.I.T. Date: Sep 16 1963, Print No. 269.