.NASA Administrator Costs Nelson launched his statements as organized Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award event in Washington. The honors recognized the females who contributed to the space ethnicity, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that aided land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Beauty System." Great mid-day." The remarkable things that NASA obtains ... and that The United States attains ... improve the leaders that came before our company." People like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Legislators that made today possible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who we miss out on, as well as that led the initiative in 2019 together with Statesman Chris Coons to bring these medals to life. Thanks to the champions for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The ladies our team honor today created it feasible for Earthlings to elevate beyond the bounds of The planet, and also for ages of pioneers to adhere to." We performed certainly not happen this far simply to follow this far." Our company continue this tradition, as one participant of the audience below along with us carries out each and every single day-- the exceptional Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually worked at NASA for virtually 50 years, is the lead processor chip for the Beauty sample program. She looks after the Moon stones as well as lunar samples NASA revived from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are actually national jewels. Thus is Andrea." The pioneers our company honor today, these Hidden Numbers-- their tenacity and also creative imagination took our team to the Moon. And their lessons, their tradition, will send our company back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... picture-- merely picture-- when our company leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." With the help of these individuals that are part of our NASA family members, our company will certainly continue to voyage on the cosmic ocean to away grandiose banks.".To find out more regarding NASA missions, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.