.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson discharged his opinions as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal event in Washington. The honors recognized the girls who added to the space nationality, consisting of the NASA mathematicians that helped land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Apollo Course." Excellent mid-day." The remarkable traits that NASA achieves ... and also America attains ... improve the trailblazers who came before our team." Individuals like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Folks like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Due to all the Legislators that made today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our company miss out on, as well as that led the attempt in 2019 alongside Senator Chris Coons to take these awards to life. Because of the champs for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The ladies we honor today made it achievable for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of Planet, as well as for eras of innovators to follow." Our team carried out certainly not happen this much merely to find this far." Our company continue this heritage, as one participant of the viewers below along with our company does each and every time-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for almost 50 years, is the lead cpu for the Beauty example plan. She supervises the Moon stones and also lunar examples NASA rejuvenated coming from Beauty, 842 pounds of holy science! These samples are actually nationwide jewels. Thus is actually Andrea." The trailblazers our company recognize today, these Hidden Numbers-- their tenacity and also creative imagination delivered our company to the Moon. As well as their lessons, their tradition, will deliver our company back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... visualize-- just picture-- when we leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Because of these folks that belong to our NASA family members, our team will definitely continue to set sail on the cosmic sea to far off grandiose shores.".For more information about NASA purposes, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.