.NASA Administrator Costs Nelson released his remarks as organized Wednesday's Hidden Designs Congressional Gold Award ceremony in Washington. The awards realized the ladies that brought about the room ethnicity, including the NASA mathematicians that helped land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Apollo System." Really good mid-day." The remarkable things that NASA accomplishes ... which United States obtains ... improve the leaders who happened just before our team." People like the ladies of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Beauty." Folks like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." With the help of all the Legislators that made today possible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, that our team overlook, and that led the attempt in 2019 along with Senator Chris Coons to deliver these awards to lifestyle. Because of the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our experts honor today made it possible for Earthlings to raise past the bounds of Planet, and also for generations of trendsetters to observe." Our experts did certainly not happen this much merely to find this far." Our experts continue this tradition, as one participant of the target market listed here with us carries out every single time-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for almost half a century, is actually the lead processor chip for the Apollo sample program. She supervises the Moon stones and also lunar samples NASA brought back coming from Beauty, 842 extra pounds of celestial science! These examples are national jewels. Therefore is Andrea." The leaders our experts honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their tenacity as well as creativity delivered our company to the Moon. And their sessions, their heritage, will definitely deliver us back to the Moon ... and then ... picture-- only imagine-- when we leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Thanks to these people who become part of our NASA household, our team will remain to sail on the planetary ocean to far off cosmic banks.".To read more concerning 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.