This poster commemorates the 20th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE). The Congress took place September 17–21, 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Bearing the authentic signatures of the participating astronauts from 15 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.

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 the ASE founders, 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.

Signature Key

United States

Loren Acton, Jay Apt, John-David Bartoe, John Blaha, Bo Bobko, Vance Brand, Roy Bridges, Bob Cenker, Roger Crouch, Walt Cunningham, Jan Davis*, Bonnie Dunbar, John Fabian, Gordon Fullerton*, Guy Gardner, Jake Garn, Owen Garriott, Hank Hartsfield, Rick Hauck, Rick Hieb, Jeff Hoffman, Tom Jones, David Leestma*, Don McMonagle, Nicholas Patrick*, Ken Reightler, Richard Richards, Mario Runco*, Rusty Schweickart, Robert Springer, Jim Voss, Charlie Walker, Carl Walz*, Don Williams

Russia

Vladimir Askyonov, Alexander Alexandrov, Oleg Atkov, Sergei Avdeev, Alexander Balandin, Yuri Baturin, Yuri Gidzenko, Viktor Gorbatko, Georgi Grechko, Alexander Ivanchenkov, Alexei Leonov, Vladimir Lyakhov, Talgat Musabayev, Alexander Poleshchuk, Viktor Savinykh, Alexander Serebrov, Vladimir Shatalov, Vladimir Soloviev, Vladimir Titov, Sergei Treshchev, Yuri Usachev, Pavel Vinogradov, Alexei Yelesiev

International

Toyohiro Akiyama (Japan), Alexander Alexandrov (Bulgaria), Reinhold Ewald (Germany), Bertalan Farkas (Hungary), Dirk Frimout (Belgium), Chris Hadfield (Canada), Miroslaw Hermaszewski (Poland), Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria), Chiaki Mukai (Japan), Talgat Musabayev (Kazakhstan), Vladimir Remek (Czech Republic), Helen Sharman (United Kingdom), Mark Shuttleworth (South Africa), Franz Viehbock (Austria).

* U.S. Federal Employee signature not available on Collector's Edition poster

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