Annotation NASA SP 2012-4114. Rebecca Wright, Sandra Johnson, Steven J. Dick, editors. Provides a snapshot of the thinking of NASA senior leadership on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and in the midst closing year of the presidency of GeorgW. Bush, only a month before the presidential election and in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, while the Agency was implementing a new Vision for Space Exploration intended to return humans to the Moon, to proceed onward to Mars, and to study the cosmos beyond. This volume is the result of conversations recorded during 2007 and 2008.