.NASA Manager Costs Nelson launched his comments as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards recognized the girls who supported the space ethnicity, including the NASA maths wizzard who helped land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Beauty Program." Excellent mid-day." The amazing points that NASA accomplishes ... and that United States accomplishes ... improve the pioneers who came before us." Folks like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Folks like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Due to all the Members of Congress that made today achievable. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our company overlook, and also who led the initiative in 2019 alongside Senator Chris Coons to bring these medals to life. Due to the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The ladies our team recognize today made it achievable for Earthlings to raise beyond the bounds of Earth, as well as for ages of trailblazers to follow." We did certainly not happen this far just ahead this much." We proceed this tradition, being one participant of the reader listed below with our company carries out every time-- the exceptional Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for nearly half a century, is actually the lead cpu for the Apollo sample program. She manages the Moon stones and also lunar examples NASA revived from Apollo, 842 pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are actually nationwide jewels. Thus is actually Andrea." The leaders our team honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their courage and imagination carried our company to the Moon. As well as their lessons, their legacy, will certainly send our company back to the Moon ... and then ... think of-- only envision-- when our team leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these folks who belong to our NASA household, our company will definitely continue to voyage on the cosmic sea to far off grandiose banks.".For additional information about NASA purposes, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.