; Whereas Susan Finley began her career as a computer programmer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and wrote software for the Deep Space Network that enabled the transmission of Armstrong’s famous words: One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ; Whereas Frances Poppy Northcutt, the first female engineer in NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, was integral to the success of the Apollo program; Whereas the Apollo missions laid the foundation for modern planetary science and built a legacy for future scientists; Whereas discoveries made during the Apollo missions are still being applied, with thousands of scientific papers published using Apollo data; Whereas the Apollo project not only fulfilled Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon, but also achieved his diplomatic goal of Cold War rivals working together when in 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project saw the last Apollo spacecraft dock with a Soviet Soyuz, and crews conducted joint operations in orbit; Whereas NASA established the technology to meet national interests in space, achieving preeminence in space for the United States by carrying out a program of scientific exploration of the Moon; Whereas NASA is now committed to returning to the Moon in a sustainable way, with innovative new technologies and systems to explore more locations across the surface than were ever thought possible, and this time, when we go to the Moon, we will stay; Whereas NASA’s science, technology, and human exploration activities touch every aspect of our lives; Whereas the space industry generates more than $400,000,000,000 in economic activity; Whereas in Florida alone, the space industry impact totals $19,000,000,000 annually and 130,000 jobs; and Whereas more than 1,700,000 people visited the Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex in 2018 to view many rocket launches and see the space shuttle Atlantis, the Saturn V rocket, Apollo 14 command module, and mockups of the capsules that took astronauts to the Moon: Now, therefore, be it