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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal Ceremony

.NASA Supervisor Expense Nelson will embody the organization in the course of a Congressional Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the females that brought about the space race, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that assisted land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Apollo System.Held by Home Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony are going to occur inside Emancipation Venue at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to become amongst the sound speakers.The activity will definitely stream survive the sound speaker's YouTube stations. The company will share a direct hyperlink on this advisory before the activity.Media without existing congressional references on the Hill thinking about participating in the event has to RSVP through Sept. 13, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Information.Introduced through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Hidden Numbers Congressional Gold Award Act-- was actually authorized into legislation eventually that year. Awards will certainly include:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her company to the USA as a mathematician.Legislative Gold Medal to Dr. Christine Darden, for her solution to the USA as an aerial engineer.Congressional Gold Awards in ceremony of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan as well as Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their solution to the USA during the area race.Legislative Gold Award in awareness of all the ladies who acted as pcs, maths wizzard, as well as designers at the National Advisory Committee for Astronautics as well as NASA between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.To find out more about NASA missions, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.