.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson discharged his comments as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award service in Washington. The honors acknowledged the girls that helped in the space ethnicity, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard that aided land the very first astronauts on the Moon under the organization's Apollo Plan." Really good afternoon." The impressive things that NASA achieves ... and also America attains ... improve the pioneers that happened just before us." People like the ladies of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Members of Congress that created today feasible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our company miss, as well as that led the effort in 2019 together with Legislator Chris Coons to bring these awards to life. Thanks to the champions for the laws, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The females we honor today created it feasible for Earthlings to raise beyond the bounds of Earth, and for age groups of trailblazers to observe." Our experts did not happen this far just to follow this far." Our team continue this legacy, as one participant of the target market listed below with our company performs each and every day-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has worked at NASA for virtually half a century, is actually the lead processor chip for the Apollo example program. She looks after the Moon stones and lunar samples NASA revived from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are national jewels. Thus is Andrea." The leaders our team honor today, these Hidden Figures-- their courage as well as imagination delivered our team to the Moon. And also their trainings, their heritage, will certainly send our company back to the Moon ... and after that ... think of-- only visualize-- when we leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these individuals who belong to our NASA family, our team will continue to set sail on the cosmic ocean to away grandiose coasts.".For additional information about NASA goals, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.