.NASA Supervisor Expense Nelson discharged his statements as organized Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award ceremony in Washington. The honors acknowledged the girls who added to the room ethnicity, featuring the NASA mathematicians who aided land the initial rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Apollo Program." Really good afternoon." The outstanding factors that NASA accomplishes ... and that United States accomplishes ... build on the leaders that happened before our company." Folks like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." With the help of all the Politicians who made today feasible. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who we miss, and also that led the attempt in 2019 alongside Legislator Chris Coons to take these awards to lifestyle. Due to the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls our experts honor today created it feasible for Earthlings to lift beyond the bounds of Planet, as well as for ages of trendsetters to adhere to." Our company performed certainly not happen this far just to find this much." We continue this tradition, being one member of the viewers listed here along with our company carries out every time-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually worked at NASA for almost 50 years, is the lead processor for the Apollo sample plan. She looks after the Moon stones and lunar samples NASA recovered coming from Beauty, 842 pounds of holy science! These samples are actually national jewels. Therefore is Andrea." The leaders we honor today, these Hidden Numbers-- their guts and also creative imagination brought us to the Moon. And also their courses, their heritage, will certainly send us back to the Moon ... and then ... envision-- just picture-- when we leave our impacts on the red sands of Mars." Because of these people that are part of our NASA household, we are going to continue to set sail on the cosmic ocean to away cosmic coasts.".To read more regarding NASA objectives, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.