.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his remarks as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards identified the girls that added to the room race, including the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Beauty Program." Excellent mid-day." The exceptional things that NASA accomplishes ... and that United States accomplishes ... improve the pioneers who came just before our team." Individuals like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and Beauty." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Due to all the Legislators who created today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our company skip, as well as who led the effort in 2019 along with Politician Chris Coons to deliver these medals to life. Due to the champs for the laws, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The ladies our experts honor today created it possible for Earthlings to lift beyond the bounds of Earth, and also for generations of trailblazers to adhere to." We carried out not happen this far simply to come this much." Our experts proceed this heritage, as one member of the viewers listed here along with our company does each and every single day-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually worked at NASA for nearly half a century, is the lead cpu for the Apollo sample course. She manages the Moon stones and also lunar examples NASA restored coming from Beauty, 842 pounds of holy science! These examples are national prizes. Thus is Andrea." The pioneers we recognize today, these Hidden Bodies-- their nerve and creativity carried us to the Moon. And their sessions, their tradition, will send us back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... visualize-- simply imagine-- when we leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these folks that belong to our NASA family members, our experts are going to remain to sail on the planetary ocean to far off planetary shores.".For more 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.