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NASA to Participate In Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award Ceremony

.NASA Supervisor Expense Nelson will definitely embody the organization in the course of a Legislative Gold Award event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, identifying the girls who contributed to the room competition, featuring the NASA mathematicians who helped land the very first astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Apollo System.Thrown through Property Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Event are going to happen inside Liberation Venue at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is counted on to become amongst the speakers.The event will flow survive on the audio speaker's YouTube network. The company is going to share a direct hyperlink on this advisory before the occasion.Media without present legislative credentials on capital curious about participating in the occasion has to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Details.Presented through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Covert Bodies Congressional Gold Award Act-- was authorized in to legislation eventually that year. Awards will feature:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her company to the USA as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Christine Darden, for her solution to the United States as an aerial designer.Congressional Gold Awards in ceremony of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the United States in the course of the room race.Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the women who served as personal computers, mathematicians, and developers at the National Advisory Board for Air Transportation and also NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.To find out more concerning NASA goals, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.