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From left to right: J. Halcombe Laning, Milton B. Trageser, and Richard H. Battin gather around a model of the Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe the three of them helped develop at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory.

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 possibility 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 inertial guidance, Dr. Charles S. Draper."