Association of Space Explorers 7th Planetary Congress Berlin, Germany 1991
Commemorative Poster Signature Key Viktor Afanasyev Vladimir Aksyonov Alexander Alexandrov (Bul.) Soyuz TM-11 Soyuz 22, Soyuz T-2 Soyuz TM-5
Joe Allen Alexander Balandin John-David Bartoe STS 5, STS 51A Soyuz TM-9 STS 51F
Patrick Baudry Gerald Carr Robert Cenker STS 51G Skylab IV 7 STS 61C
Jean-Loup Chretien Charles Conrad, Jr. Samuel Durrance Soyuz T-6, Soyuz TM-7 Gemini 5, Gemini 11 STS 35 Apollo 12, Skylab II
Lev Dyomin John Fabian Bertalan Farkas Soyuz 15 STS 7, STS 51G Soyuz 36 Reinhard Furrer Drew Gaffney Viktor Gorbatko STS 61A STS 40 Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, Soyuz 37
Georgi Grechko Miroslaw Hermaszewski Alexander Ivanchenkov Soyuz 17, Soyuz 26 Soyuz 30 Soyuz 29, Soyuz T-6 Soyuz T-14
Georgi Ivanov Yevgeni Khrunov Vladimir Kovolyonok Soyuz 33 Soyuz 5 Soyuz 25, Soyuz 29, Soyuz T-4
Alexei Leonov Don Lind James Lovell, Jr. Voskhod 2, Apollo-Soyuz STS 51B Gemini 7, Gemini 12 Apollo 8, Apollo 13 Vladimir Lyakhov Oleg Makarov Gennadi Manakov Soyuz 32, Soyuz T-9 Soyuz 12, Soyuz 27, Soyuz T-3 Soyuz TM-10 Soyuz TM-6
Musa Manarov Jon McBride Bruce McCandless II Soyuz TM-4, Soyuz TM-11 STS 41G STS 41B, STS 31
Ernst Messerschmid William Nelson Wubbo Ockels STS 61A STS 61C STS 61A
Donald Peterson Leonid Popov Dumitru Prunariu STS 6 Soyuz 35, Soyuz 40, Soyuz T-7 Soyuz 40 Vladimir Remek Stuart Roosa Rusty Schweickart Soyuz 28 Apollo 14 Apollo 9
Vitali Sevastyonov Thomas Stafford Gennadi Strekalov Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18 Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10 Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-8 Apollo-Soyuz Soyuz TM-11
Valentina Tereshkova Lodewijk van den Berg Igor Volk Vostok 6 STS 51B Soyuz T-12
Charles Walker Donald Williams Boris Yegorov STS 41D, STS 51D, STS 61B STS 51D, STS 34 Voskhod 1
Vyacheslav Zhudov Soyuz 23 This poster commemorates the 7th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE). The Congress took place September 30-October 5, 1991 in Berlin, Ger- many. Bearing the authentic and original signatures of fifty-two of the participating astronauts from ten 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. One hundred and thirty-two posters were signed at the 7th 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, Afghani, Mongolian, German, French, Romanian, Dutch, Japanese, Czech, Arabic, Polish, Italian and Hungarian. 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 is the work of German artist Thomas Reger and reflects the 7th Congress theme - "Space Has No Boundaries". The dramatic depiction of the Brandenburg Gate, the most prominent landmark along the Berlin Wall symbolizes the elimination of boundaries between people and nations. Space exploration has given humanity a new perspective of the artificial borders that separate nations and the role that international cooperation in space plays in transcending these boundaries.