.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released his statements as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award ceremony in Washington. The honors acknowledged the females that helped in the area race, including the NASA maths wizzard that helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo Course." Great mid-day." The remarkable factors that NASA achieves ... which The United States obtains ... improve the leaders who came before our company." People like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Members of Congress who produced today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our team overlook, and also that led the initiative in 2019 along with Politician Chris Coons to take these awards to lifestyle. Thanks to the champs for the laws, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our company recognize today created it achievable for Earthlings to elevate beyond the bounds of The planet, and for eras of trendsetters to adhere to." We carried out not happen this much simply to come this much." Our company proceed this tradition, being one member of the reader below along with our company performs every single day-- the amazing Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for almost half a century, is the lead processor for the Beauty example course. She supervises the Moon stones and also lunar examples NASA rejuvenated from Beauty, 842 pounds of holy scientific research! These samples are nationwide treasures. So is Andrea." The trailblazers our company honor today, these Hidden Numbers-- their guts as well as imagination brought our team to the Moon. And their sessions, their heritage, will definitely send our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... envision-- just envision-- when our team leave our footprints on the red sands of Mars." Due to these people who are part of our NASA family, our team will certainly remain to voyage on the grandiose sea to far off cosmic shores.".To find out more about NASA purposes, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.