.NASA Manager Bill Nelson launched his statements as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award ceremony in Washington. The honors realized the girls that resulted in the space ethnicity, featuring the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the first astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Beauty System." Good mid-day." The exceptional points that NASA accomplishes ... and that America achieves ... improve the pioneers that happened just before our team." People like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Apollo." People like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Members of Congress who produced today possible. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our experts miss, and that led the effort in 2019 together with Politician Chris Coons to bring these medals to life. With the help of the champions for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls we recognize today made it feasible for Earthlings to elevate beyond the bounds of Planet, and for ages of trailblazers to comply with." We carried out not come this far just to come this far." Our experts continue this heritage, being one participant of the reader here with us performs each and every single time-- the amazing Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for virtually half a century, is actually the lead processor chip for the Apollo sample system. She looks after the Moon stones and also lunar samples NASA brought back coming from Beauty, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are actually nationwide treasures. So is Andrea." The leaders our team honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their guts and also imagination took our company to the Moon. As well as their courses, their legacy, will send us back to the Moon ... and after that ... imagine-- just envision-- when our experts leave our impacts on the red sands of Mars." Due to these people who become part of our NASA family members, our company will continue to sail on the planetary sea to far off grandiose banks.".For more details about NASA purposes, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.