.NASA Administrator Costs Nelson discharged his comments as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal event in Washington. The awards acknowledged the women that contributed to the room ethnicity, featuring the NASA mathematicians who helped land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the agency's Beauty Program." Excellent afternoon." The outstanding traits that NASA achieves ... and also United States accomplishes ... improve the pioneers who happened just before our company." Folks like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo." People like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Politicians who created today possible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our team miss, and also who led the effort in 2019 along with Politician Chris Coons to bring these awards to lifestyle. Because of the champs for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our experts honor today created it feasible for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of The planet, as well as for generations of innovators to follow." Our experts performed certainly not come this much merely to come this far." Our company proceed this tradition, as being one member of the reader right here along with our company carries out every single time-- the exceptional Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for nearly 50 years, is the lead processor chip for the Apollo example plan. She manages the Moon rocks as well as lunar examples NASA restored coming from Apollo, 842 pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are actually nationwide jewels. So is actually Andrea." The leaders our company recognize today, these Hidden Amounts-- their nerve and also creative imagination carried us to the Moon. And their lessons, their heritage, will deliver our company back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... think of-- merely envision-- when our experts leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Due to these folks who are part of our NASA family, our experts will certainly continue to cruise on the cosmic ocean to far off cosmic banks.".To read more concerning NASA missions, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.