.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson launched his statements as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Designs Legislative Gold Medal service in Washington. The honors realized the girls that helped in the area nationality, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who aided land the first astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo Course." Great afternoon." The amazing points that NASA achieves ... and also United States achieves ... build on the trailblazers that came just before our company." People like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, and Beauty." Individuals like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Due to all the Members of Congress who created today feasible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that we overlook, and also that led the initiative in 2019 along with Senator Chris Coons to take these medals to life. With the help of the champs for the laws, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The women our experts recognize today made it possible for Earthlings to lift beyond the bounds of The planet, and also for eras of trendsetters to comply with." Our experts carried out certainly not happen this much simply to follow this far." Our company continue this heritage, as being one member of the viewers listed here along with our team does every single day-- the exceptional Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has actually worked at NASA for almost 50 years, is actually the lead cpu for the Beauty example plan. She manages the Moon stones and lunar samples NASA recovered from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These samples are nationwide prizes. Therefore is actually Andrea." The leaders we honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their guts as well as creative imagination carried us to the Moon. And also their courses, their heritage, will deliver us back to the Moon ... and after that ... envision-- only visualize-- when we leave our impacts on the red sands of Mars." Because of these people who become part of our NASA loved ones, our experts will continue to voyage on the planetary ocean to far off grandiose banks.".To learn more concerning NASA objectives, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.