.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson launched his opinions as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal event in Washington. The awards identified the women who contributed to the room race, including the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the first rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Apollo Plan." Excellent afternoon." The amazing factors that NASA accomplishes ... which United States accomplishes ... build on the leaders who happened before us." Folks like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo." People like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Members of Congress that produced today achievable. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our company skip, and also who led the initiative in 2019 along with Politician Chris Coons to deliver these awards to lifestyle. Thanks to the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our team honor today created it achievable for Earthlings to lift beyond the bounds of Planet, and also for eras of trailblazers to comply with." Our team did not come this much only to come this much." Our team continue this heritage, being one participant of the reader below along with our company performs every single day-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for nearly half a century, is actually the lead processor chip for the Beauty example system. She looks after the Moon stones and lunar samples NASA brought back from Apollo, 842 pounds of holy science! These examples are actually nationwide treasures. Therefore is actually Andrea." The leaders our team honor today, these Hidden Amounts-- their tenacity and also creativity brought our company to the Moon. As well as their sessions, their tradition, will definitely deliver us back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... think of-- simply envision-- when our team leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these folks who become part of our NASA family, we will continue to sail on the grandiose sea to far off cosmic shores.".To learn more concerning NASA goals, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.