Soviet Space Program
Cultural Impact: The Sputnik ShockStylized 2:3 portrait Soviet propaganda poster. Top: a red Sputnik satellite with antennas against a midnight-blue sky full of stars. Center: a gold curving trajectory line. Bottom: a Soviet worker in red overalls and an engineer in blue coveralls looking up at the satellite. Below them, the silhouette of a city skyline with a small red flag. Title text in Cyrillic reads К ЗВЕЗДАМ! (Toward the Stars).
К Звездам!

Toward the Stars

1957 - Sputnik era

Soviet space propaganda poster in the visual idiom of 1957, the year of Sputnik. A stylized red Sputnik satellite arcs across a deep blue sky on a gold trajectory line. Below, a Soviet worker and engineer look up. Inspired by the constructivist poster art of Konstantin Ivanov and the state poster houses of the early Space Age. Available as a print at sovietspaceprogram.com.

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