Propaganda Poster Space Docking Soyuz Station USSR

Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - To Lenin's Anniversary Our Victories in Space - featuring a dynamic illustration of an orange satellite marked in white text on the side reading Soyuz-5 and Soyuz-4 in space orbiting the earth against the deep blue background with a text box below listing the names of four cosmonauts: Vladimir Shatalov (b 1927), Boris Volynov (b 1934), Aleksei Yeliseyev (b 1934) and Yevgeny Khrunov (1933-2000). Launched on 14 January 1969, Soyuz 4 under the command of the cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov was sent on a mission to dock with Soyuz 5 under the command of the cosmonaut Boris Volynov to transfer the two crew members (Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov) then return to Earth; this mission marked the first successful time two manned spacecraft docked together before a connecting tunnel for the docking mechanism was developed, so the transferring cosmonauts had to spacewalk between the two spacecraft. Published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Horizontal. Good condition, tears, creasing. County: Russia, year of printing:1969, designer: V. Viktorov, size (cm): 59x96