Moon Probe USSR Space Flight Peace ProgressOriginal vintage Soviet space race era propaganda poster Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR September 1959 In the Name of Peace and Progress! 1959 ! The Soviet Union sent the first probe to the Moon's surface on 14th September 1959. Colourful design on a blue background featuring a shining red Soviet star on the Moscow Kremlin clock tower with a plane flying at speed above a ship marked Lenin on the curve of the globe earth below the text and