Astronaut Walks in Space poster, 65-363 (wordless poster distributed in Beirut)
A wordless photo sheet of a U.S. spacewalk: a rocket marked 'UNITED STATES' lifting off at left, a large view of an astronaut with a U.S. flag patch floating above Earth at upper right, and three smaller views of the walk below. The tell for transfer is the attachment of the spectacle and prestige of the space feat to the United States, signalled by the rocket lettering and the flag patch, with no explanatory text.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 30, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, July 30, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949175, 306-PPB-251).
Text on the object
UNITED STATES
Only printed text is the vertical lettering on the rocket in the photograph; the poster has no caption.
