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Lt. Luis A.L. Brasil, William Bollay, and Casar del Toral talk as Philip K. Chapman holds up a model of a satellite designed during a Satellite Design course at MIT. Bollay was chairman of the faculty committee that conducted the Satellite Design course. Original caption: "Student Weather Satellite. L to R: Lt. Luis A.L. Brasil (Aero & Astro) in Satellite Communications Design Group; Prof. Wm. Bollay, chairman of the steering committee from the faculty that conducted the Satellite Design course; Maj. Casar del Toral (Aero & Astro) on the Satellite Stabilization Design Team; Philip Chapman of Australia (Aero & Astro) who was project manager of satellite design effort during its final stages. He holds a model of the satellite--the radioactive power source at the upper end & package containing TV & infrared sensors & telemetering equipment at other end (his right hand)."