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From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007

posted 06-16-2016 08:11 PM               

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I don't know the seller of this poster, but I bought an identical one back in 2010 when they were still available from the Association of Space Explorers, and I thought I'd call attention to it as a really nice piece. It's one of the better-looking ASE posters, and my gosh what a collection of autographs. You've got so many milestones of the first 30 years of American and Soviet space exploration on one item.

When I was considering buying a poster from ASE back in 2010 (I ended up buying three different ones), I made a spreadsheet of especially notable signers. Copied and pasted below is what I typed for the 1993 poster lo those many years ago. (It's way more detail than the eBay listing contains. You're welcome, random eBay seller!)

Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11), Bobko (first Challenger), Carpenter (Mercury), Carr (capcom Apollo 8 and 12; Skylab 4), Coats (first Discovery), Fabian (first crew of five), Garriott (Skylab 3, Spacelab), Gibson (Skylab 4), Lousma (capcom Apollo 13; Skylab 3, STS-3), Lovell (Gemini 7, Gemini 10, Apollo 8, Apollo 13), McBride (chase plane on first Columbia, first crew of seven), McCandless (first untethered spacewalk), Overmyer* (shuttle), Roosa* (Apollo 14 CMP), Scully-Power (first crew of seven), Beregovoi (Soyuz 3 failed docking), Bykovsky (Vostok 5 - first 5 days solo, still a record), Filipchenko (Soyuz 7 - first time three spacecraft up), Leonov (first spacewalk, ASTP), Makarov* (emergency abort), Popovich (first time two spacecraft up, first rendezvous, first ship-to-ship communications - with Nikolaev), Tereshkova (first woman), Titov* (second to orbit, first 25-year-old, still youngest), Akiyama (first paying passenger), Ulf Merbold (first non-American in a U.S. spacecraft - shuttle, also Mir).

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From: Cabot, Arkansas, USA
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