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Mission Patch

Cosmonaut Crew

Cosmonauts Yuri Gudzenko, Thomas Reiter, Sergei Avdeev

Art Jury

Ludek Pesek - Space Artist
Dr. Roger Malina - Astrophysicist and editor of Leonardo
Dr. Karl Knott - ESA, responsible for the technical integration of Ars Ad Astra on Mir
Mr. Pierre-Dominque Cochard - Press Relations manager at OMEGA SA
Dr. Marco C. Bernasconi - space engineer
Arthur Woods - Space Artist

"There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?"
 
Isaac Asimov