.NASA Manager Expense Nelson launched his remarks as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Designs Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards acknowledged the ladies who helped in the room nationality, featuring the NASA mathematicians who assisted land the 1st rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Apollo Plan." Good mid-day." The exceptional factors that NASA achieves ... which America accomplishes ... improve the pioneers who came before our team." People like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo." Folks like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Legislators who produced today achievable. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our company overlook, and that led the attempt in 2019 along with Politician Chris Coons to take these awards to life. Thanks to the champs for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The women our team honor today made it feasible for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of Planet, as well as for eras of pioneers to adhere to." Our experts did certainly not come this much only to find this much." We continue this legacy, as one participant of the reader here with us carries out each and every single time-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has operated at NASA for nearly 50 years, is the lead processor for the Beauty sample course. She supervises the Moon rocks and also lunar samples NASA revived from Beauty, 842 pounds of celestial science! These examples are national jewels. So is Andrea." The pioneers we honor today, these Hidden Figures-- their guts and creativity carried us to the Moon. And also their sessions, their heritage, will certainly deliver our company back to the Moon ... and after that ... envision-- merely think of-- when our experts leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Because of these folks that belong to our NASA loved ones, our company are going to remain to voyage on the planetary ocean to away grandiose banks.".For more details 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.