.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson launched his opinions as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award ceremony in Washington. The awards identified the females that contributed to the room nationality, consisting of the NASA mathematicians that aided land the initial rocketeers on the Moon under the agency's Beauty Program." Good mid-day." The impressive traits that NASA attains ... and also America accomplishes ... improve the leaders that happened just before our team." Folks like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Folks like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." With the help of all the Legislators that created today possible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our experts miss out on, as well as that led the effort in 2019 together with Legislator Chris Coons to carry these medals to life. With the help of the champions for the regulations, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls our team honor today created it possible for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of Planet, as well as for generations of innovators to observe." Our company did certainly not happen this far only to find this far." Our experts proceed this legacy, as one participant of the audience here with our team carries out each and every day-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has actually worked at NASA for nearly 50 years, is actually the lead cpu for the Beauty example plan. She manages the Moon stones as well as lunar samples NASA recovered from Beauty, 842 pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are actually nationwide jewels. Therefore is Andrea." The trailblazers we honor today, these Hidden Amounts-- their guts and also imagination took us to the Moon. As well as their courses, their tradition, will definitely send our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... visualize-- only picture-- when our company leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." With the help of these folks who are part of our NASA family, our team will definitely continue to voyage on the cosmic sea to away grandiose banks.".To read 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.