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

Original caption: "Key workers on the Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe just announced by the 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 Instrumentation Laboratory."