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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Amounts Congressional Gold Award Ceremony

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson are going to work with the firm throughout a Legislative Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the women that contributed to the room competition, including the NASA mathematicians that assisted land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Beauty Program.Held through House Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony will definitely happen inside Liberation Venue at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to be among the audio speakers.The event will definitely stream survive the speaker's YouTube channel. The firm is going to share a straight web link on this advisory ahead of the event.Media without current congressional qualifications on the Hill considering taking part in the celebration has to RSVP by Sept. 13, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Information.Presented through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award Act-- was authorized right into regulation eventually that year. Honors are going to include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her solution to the USA as a math wizzard.Legislative Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her company to the USA as an aeronautical developer.Legislative Gold Medals in celebration of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their solution to the United States throughout the area ethnicity.Legislative Gold Award in recognition of all the women who functioned as computer systems, mathematicians, as well as developers at the National Advisory Board for Air Transportation as well as NASA between the 1930s and also the 1970s.To read more regarding NASA purposes, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.