.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson discharged his remarks as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal ceremony in Washington. The awards acknowledged the women who added to the room race, featuring the NASA mathematicians that helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the organization's Apollo System." Excellent mid-day." The outstanding things that NASA obtains ... and also America attains ... improve the trailblazers that happened just before our company." Folks like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and Beauty." Folks like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Due to all the Legislators who created today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that we skip, and that led the attempt in 2019 together with Senator Chris Coons to bring these medals to lifestyle. With the help of the champions for the laws, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The ladies we recognize today created it achievable for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of Earth, and also for age groups of innovators to observe." Our experts carried out not come this much only to come this much." Our experts continue this legacy, as being one member of the target market right here along with our team does every single time-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for almost half a century, is the lead processor chip for the Apollo sample program. She oversees the Moon stones and lunar samples NASA brought back from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy science! These examples are nationwide jewels. Therefore is Andrea." The pioneers our company recognize today, these Hidden Numbers-- their guts and also imagination delivered us to the Moon. And also their courses, their tradition, are going to deliver our company back to the Moon ... and then ... imagine-- just envision-- when our company leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." With the help of these people that are part of our NASA household, our company are going to remain to voyage on the grandiose ocean to far off grandiose banks.".To find out more regarding NASA objectives, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.