.NASA Administrator Expense Nelson released his comments as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award service in Washington. The honors acknowledged the females that contributed to the room race, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that aided land the 1st rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Beauty Course." Good afternoon." The amazing factors that NASA attains ... and also The United States obtains ... improve the leaders that happened just before us." Folks like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Politicians who created today possible. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our team skip, and that led the attempt in 2019 alongside Statesman Chris Coons to take these awards to lifestyle. With the help of the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The ladies we recognize today made it achievable for Earthlings to lift past the bounds of The planet, and for eras of innovators to adhere to." Our company did certainly not come this far simply to come this much." We continue this tradition, as being one member of the viewers listed below along with our team does each and every single day-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has operated at NASA for almost half a century, is the lead processor chip for the Beauty sample system. She looks after the Moon stones as well as lunar examples NASA revived from Apollo, 842 pounds of celestial science! These examples are nationwide prizes. Thus is actually Andrea." The trailblazers we recognize today, these Hidden Figures-- their tenacity and creativity carried us to the Moon. And also their courses, their tradition, will deliver our company back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... picture-- merely think of-- when our company leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these people who become part of our NASA family, our company are going to remain to sail on the cosmic ocean to away planetary coasts.".For more details concerning NASA goals, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.