This poster commemorates the 16th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers. The Congress took place November 17-23, 2000 in Madrid and Valencia, Spain. Bearing the authentic signatures of the participating astronauts from 11 nations, it is part of a series of limited edition posters that have been produced and signed at each ASE Congress since the Association was founded in 1985; 177 of these posters were signed at the 16th 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 Vietnamese, Hindi, Bulgarian, Italian, Afghani, German, Polish, Japanese, Romanian, Dutch, Czech, Hungarian, Mongolian, Spanish, Arabic 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

Pedro Duque (Host), Michael Lopez-Alegria (Host)

United States

Loren Acton, *Scott Altman, Bo Bobko, Jay Buckey, Jr., *Franklin Chang-Diaz, *Roger Crouch, *Jan Davis, John Fabian, *Gordon Fullerton, Jake Garn, Owen Garriott, *Fred Gregory, Hank Hartsfield, Jr., Tom Henricks, *Jeffrey Hoffman, *Millie Hughes-Fulford, *Rick Husband, *Michael Lopez-Alegria, *Ed Lu, *Richard Mastracchio, Ken Reightler, Jr., Rusty Schweickart, *Steve Smith, Pierre Thuot, Charlie Walker

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

Russia

Vladimir Aksyonov, Sergei Avdeev, Anatoli Berezovoi, Anatoli Filipchenko, Viktor Gorbatko, Alexander Ivanchenkov, Alexander Kaleri, Valeri Kubasov, Alexei Leonov, Oleg Makarov, Andrian Nikolaev, Pavel Popovich, Viktor Savinykh, Alexander Serebrov, Vitali Sevastyonov, Vladimir Shatalov, Vladimir Soloviev, Gennadi Strekalov, Vladimir Titov, Vladimir Vasyutin, Igor Volk, Alexander Volkov, Vyacheslav Zhudov

International

Alexander Alexandrov (Bulgaria),Tokhtar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan), Reinhold Ewald (Germany), Miroslaw Hermaszewski (Poland), Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria), Ulf Merbold (Germany), Chiaki Mukai (Japan), Dumitru Prunariu (Romania), Franz Viehbock (Austria)

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