The airplane pictured is a typical 1950s technological fantasy. It seems to be meant as a passenger plane, circling the earth outside of the atmosphere. The space race between the USA and the USSR is in full swing in the late 1950s, with the USSR in the lead. China is just starting its own satellite projects. On the right a Russian ship, the Lenin (ЛЕНИН).

Print no. T8081.3659, second printing (August 1958), print run 6,001 - 16.000.