This poster commemorates the 14th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers. The Congress took place October 19-23, 1998 in Brussels, Belgium. Bearing the authentic signatures of seventy-two of the participating astronauts from eighteen nations, it is part of a series of limited collector's edition posters that have been produced and signed at each ASE Congress since the Association was founded in 1985. One hundred forty-seven posters were signed at the 14th Congress.

The poster has two headings, the main heading in English at the top, with the Russian displayed at the bottom. Around the periphery are printed translations of “Association of Space Explorers” in the native languages of all individuals who have flown in space. Clockwise, from upper left with English at the top, they include Romanian, Dutch, Japanese, Czech, Arabic, Polish, Spanish, Hungarian, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Italian, Bulgarian, Afghan, Hindi, Mongolian, German and French. The background is taken from NASA archive photo # 83 HC 213 which has been used for each set of posters in the series.

The central image of the poster represents the Congress theme “Space and Education--A Message to the Youth.” The image shows a stylized spacecraft superimposed over a painting of Earth; the rays represent the critical link between knowledge, education and space exploration, particularly for tomorrow's explorers: the world's youth . The image illustrates the conviction of ASE members that space technologies and exploration not only benefit life on Earth but also educate and inspire students to academic excellence.

Signature Key

Belgium

Dirk Frimout (Host)

United States

Loren Acton, Bo Bobko, Ken Cameron, Bob Cenker, Roger Crouch, Sam Durrance, John Fabian, Owen Garriott, *Fred Gregory, Hank Hartsfield, Jr., Tom Henricks, Rick Hieb, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Byron Lichtenberg, Jon McBride, Ron Parise, Don Peterson, *Mario Runco, Jr., Charlie Walker, Don Williams

(* US federal employee, signature not included on Collector's Edition Poster)

Russia

Oleg Atkov, Yuri Baturin, Anatoli Berezovoi, Nikolai Budarin, Valeri Bykovsky, Anatoli Filipchenko, Viktor Gorbatko, Georgi Grechko, Alexei Gubarev, Alexander Ivanchenkov, Alexander Kaleri, Valeri Korzun, Valeri Kubasov, Alexander Lazutkin, Alexei Leonov, Vladimir Lyakhov, Oleg Makarov, Musa Manarov, Andrian Nikolaev, Alexander Poleshchuk, Pavel Popovich, Gennadi Sarafanov, Viktor Savinykh, Alexander Serebrov, Vitali Sevastyonov, Vladimir Shatalov, Vladimir Soloviov, Gennadi Strekalov, Gherman Titov, Vladimir Titov, Vladimir Vasyutin, Pavel Vinogradov, Igor Volk, Alexander Volkov, Alexei Yelesiev

International

Toyohiro Akiyama (Japan), Alexander Alexandrov (Bulgaria), Tokhtar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan), Reinhold Ewald (Germany), Mohammed Faris (Syria), Bertalan Farkas (Hungary), Jugderdemidyn Gurragchaa (Mongolia), Miroslaw Hermaszewski (Poland), Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria), Sigmund Jaehn (Germany), Ulf Merbold (Germany), Ernst Messerschmid (Germany), Abdul Ahad Mohmand (Afghanistan), Talgat Musabayev (Kazakhstan), Wubbo Ockels (Netherlands), Dumitru Prunariu (Romania), Helen Sharman (United Kingdom), Franz Viehbock (Austria)

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