This poster commemorates the 8th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers. The Congress took place August 23-30, 1992 in Washington, DC. Bearing the authentic signatures of eighty-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. Only 200 editions of this poster were signed at the 8th 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.

The central image of the poster features a point perspective composite photograph of the planet Mars produced by the US Geological Survey. Surrounding Mars are the flags of the twenty five nations that have flown citizens in space at the time of the Congress. The image symbolizes the conviction of ASE members that a journey to Mars should be an international effort that draws upon the strengths of all nations.

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United States

Loren Acton, Joe Allen, *John-David Bartoe, Karol Bobko, Dan Brandenstein, Mark Brown, Scott Carpenter, Jerry Carr, Bob Cenker, Pete Conrad, Walt Cunningham, Charlie Duke, Jr., Sam Durrance, John Fabian, Jake Garn, Owen Garriott, Ed Gibson, Rick Hauck, Karl Henize, Millie Hughes-Fulford, Byron Lichtenberg, Don Lind, Mike Lounge, James Lovell, Jr., Jon McBride, Bruce McCandless II, Jim McDivitt, Bill Nelson, George Nelson, Bryan O'Connor, Ron Parise, Bill Pogue, Stu Roosa, Rusty Schweickart, Paul Scully-Power, Bob Springer, Tom Stafford, Eugene Trinh, Dick Truly, Lodewijk van den Berg, Charlie Walker

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

Russia

Alexander Alexandrov, Anatoli Artsebarsky, Yuri Artyukhin, Konstantin Feoktistov, Yuri Glazkov, Georgi Grechko, Pyotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Sergei Krikalev, Valeri Kubasov, Alexei Leonov, Oleg Makarov, Andrian Nikolayev, Leonid Popov, Yuri Romanenko, Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Valeri Ryumin, Victor Savinykh, Svetlana Savitskaya, Vladimir Solovyov, Valentina Tereshkova, Igor Volk, Alexander Volkov, Boris Yegorov, Vyacheslav Zudov

International

Toyohiro Akiyama (Japan), Alexander Alexandrov (Bulgaria), Sultan ibn Salman al-Saud (Saudi Arabia), Tokhtar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan), Patrick Baudry (France), Jean-Loup Chretien (France), Bertalan Farkas (Hungary), Dirk Frimout Belgium), Reinhard Furrer (Germany), Miroslaw Hermaszewski (Poland), Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria), Sigmund Jaehn (Germany), Franco Malerba (Italy), Ulf Merbold (Germany), Ernst Messerschmid (Germany), Wubbo Ockels (Netherlands), Dorin Prunariu (Romania), Vladimir Remek (Czech Republic), Helen Sharman (United Kingdom), Michel Tognini (France), Franz Viehbock (Austria)

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