General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Insititute: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ., February 10-12, 2003: Over the past five years, the research accomplishments of the Institute’s science teams have been interwoven with the linking efforts of our collaborative technologies and outreach activities. In this General Meeting, the Program Organizing Committee has mirrored our science content and our cooperative aspirations to create an agenda reflective of our priorities and interests. We gather to reinforce our personal interactions, our friendships, and to learn the latest from our colleagues—those familiar to us and those we will come to know over the next few days.