This poster commemorates the 15th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers. The Congress took place October 4-9, 1999 in Bucharest, Romania. Bearing the authentic signatures of twenty-two of the participating astronauts from 12 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 sixty one posters were signed at the 15^th 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.

Signature Key

Romania

Dumitru Prunariu (Host)

United States

Bo Bobko, Sam Durrance, John Fabian, *Gordon Fullerton, Charlie Walker

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

Russia

Alexei Leonov, Musa Manarov, Andrian Nikolaev, Viktor Savinykh, Vitali Sevastyonov, Vladimir Shatalov, Vladimir Soloviev, Gennadi Strekalov

International

Alexander Alexandrov (Bulgaria), Tokhtar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan), Reinhold Ewald (Germany), Mohammed Faris (Syria), Bertalan Farkas (Hungary), Miroslaw Hermaszewski (Poland), Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria), Chiaki Mukai (Japan), Sultan ibn Salman al-Saud (Saudi Arabia)

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