Reminds me of that painting of a Red Army soldier gazing in amazement at the interior of the Winter Palace.
Twenty-nine years after this photograph, the Soviets started the Space Race with the world's first artificial satellite. 
The lady has a look on her face like she's having a vision of the horrors of the future that this new contraption will bring. The man is looking at it like the gears are turning and he's envisioning cool new shit he could do with this.
They're seeing the same thing 