.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson discharged his opinions as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal service in Washington. The honors acknowledged the girls who resulted in the space race, including the NASA mathematicians that assisted land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo System." Great mid-day." The amazing things that NASA accomplishes ... and also America attains ... build on the leaders that happened just before us." Folks like the women of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Apollo." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Members of Congress who created today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that we skip, as well as that led the initiative in 2019 alongside Senator Chris Coons to carry these medals to life. With the help of the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our team recognize today made it possible for Earthlings to elevate past the bounds of Earth, and for ages of trendsetters to comply with." Our company did not happen this far simply ahead this much." Our experts continue this tradition, as one member of the target market below with us performs each and every single time-- the impressive Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for almost 50 years, is actually the lead processor chip for the Apollo sample program. She oversees the Moon stones as well as lunar examples NASA brought back coming from Beauty, 842 extra pounds of celestial scientific research! These examples are national jewels. Therefore is actually Andrea." The leaders we honor today, these Hidden Amounts-- their guts as well as creativity carried our company to the Moon. As well as their trainings, their heritage, will certainly send our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... picture-- just picture-- when we leave our footprints on the red sands of Mars." Thanks to these individuals who belong to our NASA family, our experts will definitely remain to set sail on the planetary ocean to away cosmic coasts.".For more details regarding NASA objectives, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.