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NASA Shares Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award Opinions

.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson launched his statements as planned for Wednesday's Hidden Designs Legislative Gold Award event in Washington. The awards recognized the girls who brought about the area race, including the NASA maths wizzard who aided land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the company's Beauty Program." Good afternoon." The outstanding things that NASA achieves ... and that The United States accomplishes ... build on the trailblazers that came just before our company." Folks like the girls of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Apollo." People like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." With the help of all the Politicians who made today feasible. The overdue Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our team skip, and also who led the attempt in 2019 together with Legislator Chris Coons to carry these medals to lifestyle. Due to the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski as well as Shelley Moore Capito, and Congressman Frank Lucas." The females our team honor today created it possible for Earthlings to elevate past the bounds of Planet, and also for generations of innovators to comply with." Our experts carried out certainly not come this far only ahead this far." Our team continue this tradition, as being one member of the audience here along with our company carries out each and every single day-- the exceptional Andrea Mosie." Andrea, that has actually worked at NASA for almost 50 years, is the lead processor for the Apollo example system. She manages the Moon stones and also lunar samples NASA brought back coming from Apollo, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These samples are actually national prizes. So is Andrea." The leaders our team honor today, these Hidden Numbers-- their tenacity and imagination delivered our company to the Moon. And also their lessons, their tradition, will definitely send our team back to the Moon ... and after that ... imagine-- just think of-- when we leave our footprints on the reddish sands of Mars." With the help of these people who belong to our NASA household, our experts will remain to cruise on the planetary sea to away grandiose coasts.".To read more about NASA objectives, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.