This poster commemorates the 9th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers. The Congress took place October 10-17, 1993 in Vienna, Austria. Bearing the authentic signatures of fifty-five of the participating astronauts from fourteen 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.

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, Italian, Bulgarian, Afghan, Hindi, Mongolian, German, French, Romanian, Dutch, Japanese, Czech, Arabic, Polish, Spanish, Hungarian and Kazakh. 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 for Life” and was produced by Swiss graphic artist Wolfgang Reutzler. The image features the well-known double-helix of the DNA molecule with one of its prominent links depicted in the red and white of the Austrian flag. The image illustrates the belief of ASE members that space holds great promise both as a new environment for human and other life as well as a source of many benefits to life on Earth.

Signature Key

Austria

Franz Viehbock (Host)

United States

Buzz Aldrin, *John-David Bartoe, Scott Carpenter, Jerry Carr, Bob Cenker, Mike Coats, Walt Cunningham, Sam Durrance, John Fabian, Owen Garriott, Ed Gibson, Byron Lichtenberg, Don Lind, Jack Lousma, James Lovell, Jr., Jon McBride, Bruce McCandless II, Bill Nelson, Bob Overmyer, Ron Parise, Don Peterson, Stu Roosa, Paul Scully-Power, Bob Springer, Charlie Walker, Taylor Wang, Don Williams

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

Russia

Anatoli Artsebarsky, Oleg Atkov, Georgi Beregovoi, Valeri Bykovsky, Anatoli Filipchenko, Yuri Glazkov, Alexander Ivanchenkov, Pyotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Alexei Leonov, Oleg Makarov, Gennadi Manakov, Alexander Poleshchuk, Pavel Popovich, Victor Savinykh, Vitali Sevastyonov, Anatoli Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Gennadi Strekalov, Valentina Tereshkova, Gherman Titov, Vladimir Vasyutin, Alexander Viktorenko, Igor Volk, Alexander Volkov

International

Toyohiro Akiyama (Japan), Alexander Alexandrov (Bulgaria), Toktar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan), Patrick Baudry (France), Bertalan Farkas (Hungary), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (Germany), Dirk Frimout (Belgium), Reinhard Furrer (Germany), Jugderdemedyn Gurragchaa (Mongolia), Miroslaw Hermaszewski (Poland), Ulf Merbold (Germany), Ernst Messerschmid (Germany), Mamoru Mohri (Japan), Wubbo Ockels (Netherlands), Dorin Prunariu (Romania), Vladimir Remek (Czech Republic), Helen Sharman (United Kingdom), Michel Tognini (France), Ulrich Walter (Germany)

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