.NASA Manager Expense Nelson discharged his remarks as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal event in Washington. The honors identified the girls that resulted in the space nationality, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who helped land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the organization's Beauty System." Really good afternoon." The impressive factors that NASA achieves ... which United States achieves ... improve the leaders who happened prior to us." Folks like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and also Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." With the help of all the Members of Congress that made today possible. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our company miss, and also who led the initiative in 2019 alongside Senator Chris Coons to bring these awards to lifestyle. Because of the champions for the laws, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The women our experts recognize today made it feasible for Earthlings to elevate beyond the bounds of The planet, and also for generations of trailblazers to comply with." Our experts performed not come this far just ahead this much." Our experts continue this legacy, being one member of the audience listed here with us performs every single day-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for nearly half a century, is actually the lead cpu for the Apollo sample plan. She manages the Moon stones as well as lunar samples NASA revived coming from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy science! These samples are actually national prizes. Therefore is actually Andrea." The pioneers our company recognize today, these Hidden Numbers-- their courage and also creative imagination took us to the Moon. As well as their courses, their heritage, will send our company back to the Moon ... and then ... imagine-- just imagine-- when our team leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these folks that belong to our NASA family, our company will definitely continue to sail on the cosmic sea to far off cosmic coasts.".To find out more regarding 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.