.NASA Manager Expense Nelson released his opinions as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award event in Washington. The awards recognized the women who helped in the area ethnicity, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard that helped land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the organization's Beauty System." Excellent afternoon." The exceptional factors that NASA accomplishes ... and also United States attains ... build on the trailblazers that came prior to our team." Individuals like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Folks like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Members of Congress that created today achievable. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our experts skip, as well as that led the initiative in 2019 alongside Politician Chris Coons to deliver these awards to lifestyle. With the help of the champs for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls our experts recognize today made it achievable for Earthlings to lift beyond the bounds of Planet, as well as for age groups of innovators to follow." Our company did not happen this much just to follow this far." Our company continue this heritage, as one participant of the target market below along with us carries out every single day-- the remarkable Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has operated at NASA for virtually 50 years, is actually the lead processor for the Apollo example plan. She looks after the Moon rocks as well as lunar examples NASA revived coming from Beauty, 842 pounds of celestial scientific research! These examples are national prizes. So is Andrea." The pioneers our team honor today, these Hidden Numbers-- their guts and imagination took our team to the Moon. And also their courses, their tradition, are going to send our team back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... envision-- simply envision-- when our team leave our impacts on the red sands of Mars." Due to these individuals that belong to our NASA family members, our team will remain to voyage on the cosmic sea to away planetary coasts.".To find out more about NASA missions, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.