.NASA Manager Costs Nelson released his opinions as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award event in Washington. The honors identified the women who supported the space nationality, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that helped land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Apollo Program." Great mid-day." The amazing factors that NASA achieves ... and that The United States accomplishes ... build on the leaders that happened just before us." Individuals like the females of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Beauty." Folks like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Legislators that created today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our company overlook, and that led the effort in 2019 along with Legislator Chris Coons to bring these medals to life. Due to the champions for the regulations, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls we honor today made it feasible for Earthlings to lift past the bounds of Earth, as well as for age groups of trailblazers to follow." Our company performed not happen this much simply to come this far." Our team proceed this tradition, as one member of the target market listed below with us performs each and every single day-- the impressive Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for virtually 50 years, is actually the lead cpu for the Beauty sample program. She looks after the Moon stones as well as lunar samples NASA restored coming from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of celestial scientific research! These samples are actually nationwide treasures. Therefore is Andrea." The trailblazers we honor today, these Hidden Amounts-- their tenacity as well as creativity brought us to the Moon. As well as their courses, their tradition, are going to deliver our team back to the Moon ... and then ... envision-- simply think of-- when our team leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these people who belong to our NASA family, we will continue to voyage on the cosmic ocean to away planetary banks.".To learn more regarding NASA purposes, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.