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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award Event

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will certainly work with the company in the course of a Legislative Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, identifying the girls that added to the room competition, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who assisted land the first astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo Plan.Hosted by Home Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Ceremony will happen inside Liberation Venue at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Nelson is actually counted on to become one of the speakers.The activity will stream survive the speaker's YouTube stations. The firm will definitely discuss a straight web link on this advisory ahead of the event.Media without current congressional references on the Hill interested in joining the celebration needs to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Relevant information.Launched by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Figures Congressional Gold Award Act-- was actually authorized into law later on that year. Honors are going to include:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her solution to the United States as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aerial designer.Legislative Gold Medals in commemoration of the lifespans of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in awareness of their service to the United States in the course of the space race.Legislative Gold Medal in awareness of all the women that acted as personal computers, mathematicians, and designers at the National Advisory Board for Flying as well as NASA between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.For additional information about NASA objectives, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.