.NASA Administrator Costs Nelson launched his remarks as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award service in Washington. The honors identified the ladies that supported the room ethnicity, featuring the NASA maths wizzard who helped land the first rocketeers on the Moon under the agency's Apollo Plan." Good mid-day." The exceptional traits that NASA achieves ... and also America obtains ... improve the trailblazers who happened just before our company." Individuals like the ladies of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Apollo." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Legislators who created today feasible. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our experts miss, and also who led the initiative in 2019 along with Senator Chris Coons to carry these medals to life. Due to the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls our company honor today created it achievable for Earthlings to raise beyond the bounds of Planet, and for age groups of pioneers to adhere to." We performed certainly not happen this far only to find this much." Our team proceed this tradition, as one member of the target market right here along with us carries out every day-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has worked at NASA for virtually half a century, is the lead cpu for the Beauty sample course. She supervises the Moon rocks and also lunar examples NASA revived from Beauty, 842 pounds of celestial science! These samples are actually nationwide treasures. Therefore is actually Andrea." The leaders our company honor today, these Hidden Figures-- their courage and also creativity carried us to the Moon. And also their lessons, their tradition, will certainly send our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... visualize-- just visualize-- when we leave our footprints on the red sands of Mars." Due to these individuals that are part of our NASA family, our company will definitely remain to sail on the cosmic sea to far off grandiose coasts.".To learn more concerning NASA purposes, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.