.NASA Manager Bill Nelson launched his comments as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal service in Washington. The honors realized the ladies that brought about the area ethnicity, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who assisted land the very first astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Beauty Plan." Great afternoon." The exceptional points that NASA attains ... and also The United States attains ... improve the leaders that came before our team." People like the ladies of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Politicians that made today feasible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our team skip, as well as who led the effort in 2019 together with Legislator Chris Coons to deliver these awards to lifestyle. With the help of the champs 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 experts honor today made it possible for Earthlings to elevate past the bounds of Planet, and also for eras of trailblazers to follow." Our team did not come this far merely to come this much." Our experts continue this legacy, as one member of the target market below with our team performs each and every single day-- the impressive Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for almost 50 years, is actually the lead cpu for the Apollo example course. She looks after the Moon stones and lunar examples NASA brought back coming from Apollo, 842 pounds of holy science! These samples are national prizes. Thus is Andrea." The leaders our company honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their courage and creative imagination brought our team to the Moon. And also their courses, their tradition, are going to deliver our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... think of-- simply visualize-- when we leave our impacts on the red sands of Mars." Thanks to these people that are part of our NASA family members, our experts will remain to cruise on the cosmic ocean to away cosmic shores.".For more details regarding NASA missions, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.