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Class: Planetary. Type: Lunar Flyby. Destination: Moon. Nation: USA.

The Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe was a 1957 proposal of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory.

RISP Chronology

1959 June 1 - Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe study - Program: Apollo.
A report entitled "Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe" was issued at the direction of C. Stark Draper, Director of the Instrumentation Laboratory, MIT. Several organizations had participated in this study, which began in 1957.

Bibliography:

Ertel , Ivan D; Morse , Mary Louise; et al, The Apollo Spacecraft Chronology Vol I - IV NASA SP-4009, NASA, 1966-1974. Web Address when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm.

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