Published in celebration of the space agency's fiftieth anniversary, NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration presents an expanded selection of works created for the NASA Art Program, which was established in 1962 to document the history of the agency. Since then NASA's art collection has grown to include works by artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, James Wyeth, Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Mike and Doug Starn, Vija Celmins, and Annie Leibovitz.

Essays by astronaut Michael Collins, curator Tom D. Crouch, and novelist Ray Bradbury frame nearly 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures chosen from the archives of NASA and the National Air and Space Museum in Washinton, D.C. NASA/Art stands as a lasting record of the impact of space exploration on the artistic imagination.