IX Congress of the Association of Space Explorers: Autographed Commemorative Poster

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
Toyohiro Akiyama, Buzz Aldrin, Alexander Alexandrov, Anatoli Artsebarsky, Oleg Atkov, Toktar Aubakirov, *John-David Bartoe, Patrick Baudry, Georgi Beregovoi, Karol Bobko, Valeri Bykovsky, Scott Carpenter, Jerry Carr, Bob Cenker, Mike Coats, Walt Cunningham, Sam Durrance, John Fabian, Bertalan Farkas, Anatoli Filipchenko, Klaus-Dietrich Flade, Dirk Frimout, Reinhard Furrer, Owen Garriott, Ed Gibson, Yuri Glazkov, Jugderdemedyn Gurragchaa, Miroslaw Hermaszewski, Alexander Ivanchenkov, Pyotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalyonok, Alexei Leonov, Byron Lichtenberg, Don Lind, Jack Lousma, James Lovell, Jr., Oleg Makarov, Gennadi Manakov, Jon McBride, Bruce McCandless II, Ulf Merbold, Ernst Messerschmid, Mamoru Mohri, Bill Nelson, Wubbo Ockels, Bob Overmyer, Ron Parise, Don Peterson, Alexander Poleshchuk, Pavel Popovich, Dorin Prunariu, Vladimir Remek, Stu Roosa, Victor Savinykh, Paul Scully-Power, Vitali Sevastyonov, Helen Sharman, Anatoli Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Bob Springer, Gennadi Strekalov, Valentina Tereshkova, Gherman Titov, Michel Tognini, Vladimir Vasyutin, Franz Viehbock, Alexander Viktorenko, Igor Volk, Alexander Volkov, Charlie Walker, Ulrich Walter, Taylor Wang, Don Williams

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