.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson launched his remarks as gotten ready for Wednesday's Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal event in Washington. The honors realized the women that supported the space race, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Apollo Course." Excellent mid-day." The remarkable factors that NASA obtains ... which America obtains ... build on the trailblazers that came prior to us." People like the females of Mercury, Gemini, and also Apollo." Folks like Mary Jackson. Doctor Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Due to all the Politicians who made today possible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our experts skip, and also that led the initiative in 2019 along with Legislator Chris Coons to carry these medals to life. Because of the champions for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The women our experts honor today created it achievable for Earthlings to lift past the bounds of Planet, and for ages of pioneers to adhere to." Our experts carried out not happen this far just to follow this far." Our company continue this heritage, being one member of the viewers below along with our team does every day-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has worked at NASA for virtually 50 years, is the lead processor chip for the Apollo example course. She looks after the Moon rocks and also lunar examples NASA revived coming from Apollo, 842 pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are nationwide prizes. So is Andrea." The trailblazers our team honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their nerve and also creativity carried us to the Moon. And their trainings, their tradition, will certainly deliver our company back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... envision-- simply envision-- when our team leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." With the help of these individuals that become part of our NASA household, we are going to remain to voyage on the planetary sea to far off cosmic shores.".For more information concerning NASA goals, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.