.NASA Administrator Expense Nelson released his comments as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award event in Washington. The honors realized the women who helped in the area nationality, featuring the NASA mathematicians who assisted land the very first astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Apollo Program." Really good afternoon." The exceptional points that NASA attains ... and that America attains ... build on the pioneers that came before our company." Individuals like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, and Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Thanks to all the Members of Congress who made today achievable. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our experts overlook, as well as who led the effort in 2019 along with Politician Chris Coons to bring these awards to lifestyle. With the help of the champs for the regulations, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our team recognize today made it feasible for Earthlings to lift past the bounds of Planet, and also for generations of trendsetters to follow." Our experts performed certainly not come this far merely to come this far." Our team proceed this tradition, as one member of the reader below along with us does every single time-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has operated at NASA for nearly 50 years, is actually the lead processor for the Beauty sample course. She looks after the Moon rocks as well as lunar examples NASA brought back coming from Apollo, 842 pounds of celestial science! These examples are nationwide jewels. So is actually Andrea." The pioneers our team recognize today, these Hidden Figures-- their guts and also creative imagination took our team to the Moon. As well as their trainings, their heritage, will definitely deliver our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... imagine-- just picture-- when our experts leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these individuals that become part of our NASA household, we are going to continue to sail on the grandiose ocean to far off cosmic banks.".For additional information regarding NASA goals, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.