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RISP

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American lunar flyby probe. Study 1959. The Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe was a 1957 proposal of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory.

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1959 June

  • Recoverable Interplanetary Space Probe study - . Nation: USA. Program: Apollo. Spacecraft: RISP. 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..