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NASA Shares Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Remarks

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson discharged his comments as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Designs Legislative Gold Award service in Washington. The awards acknowledged the girls who supported the room nationality, including the NASA maths wizzard that assisted land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Beauty Plan." Excellent mid-day." The outstanding factors that NASA obtains ... and also America achieves ... build on the pioneers that came before our company." People like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, and also Beauty." People like Mary Jackson. Physician Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Politicians that created today achievable. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our company skip, and that led the effort in 2019 along with Legislator Chris Coons to deliver these awards to life. Thanks to the champs for the legislation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and also Shelley Moore Capito, as well as Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls our team recognize today created it achievable for Earthlings to elevate beyond the bounds of Planet, as well as for age groups of trailblazers to adhere to." We did certainly not come this far only to come this far." We proceed this tradition, as one member of the target market listed below with us performs each and every time-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has actually operated at NASA for almost half a century, is the lead processor for the Apollo example course. She looks after the Moon stones and lunar examples NASA brought back from Apollo, 842 pounds of celestial scientific research! These samples are nationwide prizes. So is Andrea." The pioneers our experts recognize today, these Hidden Figures-- their nerve and imagination carried us to the Moon. And their sessions, their legacy, will certainly deliver our company back to the Moon ... and after that ... imagine-- just imagine-- when our team leave our impacts on the red sands of Mars." Because of these individuals that become part of our NASA family members, our experts will continue to set sail on the cosmic sea to away cosmic shores.".To read more regarding NASA objectives, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.