Space

NASA Shares Hidden Designs Congressional Gold Medal Statements

.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson released his statements as prepared for Wednesday's Hidden Designs Congressional Gold Award service in Washington. The honors acknowledged the girls who supported the space ethnicity, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Beauty Program." Good afternoon." The impressive factors that NASA attains ... and also America achieves ... improve the leaders that came before our team." Individuals like the women of Mercury, Gemini, as well as Beauty." Folks like Mary Jackson. Dr. Christine Darden. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Johnson." Because of all the Members of Congress who produced today feasible. The late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who our company skip, and also that led the initiative in 2019 together with Legislator Chris Coons to deliver these medals to life. Due to the champions for the regulation, then-Senator Kamala Harris, Senators Lisa Murkowski and Shelley Moore Capito, and also Congressman Frank Lucas." The girls we honor today made it achievable for Earthlings to elevate past the bounds of Earth, and also for eras of innovators to observe." Our team performed certainly not happen this much only to find this much." We proceed this tradition, as being one member of the viewers below along with our company performs every day-- the outstanding Andrea Mosie." Andrea, who has operated at NASA for nearly 50 years, is actually the lead processor for the Beauty sample system. She supervises the Moon rocks and lunar examples NASA rejuvenated from Beauty, 842 extra pounds of holy scientific research! These examples are nationwide treasures. So is Andrea." The pioneers we honor today, these Hidden Bodies-- their nerve and creativity took our team to the Moon. And their lessons, their tradition, will certainly deliver us back to the Moon ... and afterwards ... envision-- only imagine-- when we leave our impacts on the reddish sands of Mars." Due to these people that belong to our NASA household, we are going to remain to set sail on the grandiose ocean to far off planetary banks.".To learn more about NASA goals, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.