.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson launched his remarks as organized Wednesday's Hidden Designs Legislative Gold Award service in Washington. The honors acknowledged the women that helped in the area race, consisting of the NASA mathematicians that helped land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo System." Excellent mid-day." The outstanding factors that NASA attains ... and that United States achieves ... improve the trailblazers who happened before us." People like the women of Mercury, Gemini, and also Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Politicians that made today possible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our team skip, and also who led the initiative in 2019 alongside Senator Chris Coons to take these awards to lifestyle. Due to the champs for the regulations, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our experts honor today made it possible for Earthlings to elevate past the bounds of Planet, and also for generations of trendsetters to observe." Our company performed certainly not come this far just to follow this far." We continue this legacy, as one member of the viewers here along with us carries out each and every single time-- the impressive Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has actually operated at NASA for virtually half a century, is actually the lead processor chip for the Apollo example plan. She looks after the Moon stones and lunar examples NASA brought back coming from Apollo, 842 pounds of celestial science! These examples are actually nationwide treasures. Thus is Andrea." The pioneers our experts honor today, these Hidden Figures-- their tenacity and creative imagination took our team to the Moon. As well as their sessions, their legacy, will certainly send our company back to the Moon ... and after that ... visualize-- simply imagine-- when our team leave our footprints on the red sands of Mars." Due to these people that belong to our NASA family, our team will definitely continue to cruise on the cosmic ocean to away planetary banks.".To read more regarding NASA goals, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.