The Spacemobile space science poster (English, distributed at multiple posts)
A poster announcing 'The Spacemobile', a space science lecture demonstration. A painted astronaut in a spacesuit holds up lunar soil beside a landing craft marked 'States' on a moonscape. The sheet names the New Zealand Department of Education and NASA as sponsors. The tell is transfer: the glamour of space exploration is attached to the lecture programme.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 26, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. information program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East; sponsors per sheet: NZ Dept. of Education, NASA
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- 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, February 26, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949271, 306-PPB-346).
Text on the object
THE SPACEMOBILE A Space Science Lecture Demonstration Sponsored by New Zealand Department of Education and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration [on the landing craft:] [partly hidden]STATES S-562 (8)
'STATES' on the craft is partly cropped by the illustration; the code at lower left is small and read approximately.
