.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his opinions as organized Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards identified the females that added to the room nationality, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that helped land the first rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Apollo Program." Great afternoon." The amazing things that NASA accomplishes ... which America achieves ... build on the leaders that came just before us." People like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." With the help of all the Legislators that created today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our team miss out on, and also who led the effort in 2019 together with Legislator Chris Coons to bring these medals to lifestyle. With the help of the champs for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The women our experts recognize today made it feasible for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of The planet, and also for ages of innovators to adhere to." Our company carried out certainly not come this much merely ahead this much." Our team continue this heritage, as one participant of the target market below along with us carries out each and every day-- the amazing Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has actually worked at NASA for almost 50 years, is the lead processor chip for the Apollo sample plan. She supervises the Moon stones and also lunar samples NASA brought back coming from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These samples are national prizes. So is Andrea." The trailblazers our experts recognize today, these Hidden Amounts-- their nerve and creativity brought us to the Moon. As well as their trainings, their heritage, will certainly send our team back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... visualize-- simply picture-- when we leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these folks that become part of our NASA family, our team will definitely remain to sail on the planetary ocean to away cosmic banks.".For more details regarding NASA purposes, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.