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NASA to Join Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award Service

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will definitely represent the company in the course of a Congressional Gold Award event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the females that added to the area race, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that aided land the initial rocketeers on the Moon under the organization's Beauty System.Held by Residence Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Service will definitely take place inside Emancipation Hall at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is expected to become among the sound speakers.The event will definitely stream survive on the sound speaker's YouTube channel. The agency will discuss a straight link on this advisory before the event.Media without existing legislative credentials on capital curious about taking part in the activity needs to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Info.Launched through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Covert Amounts Congressional Gold Medal Action-- was signed right into law eventually that year. Awards will include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her solution to the United States as a mathematician.Legislative Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aeronautical developer.Congressional Gold Medals in celebration of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan as well as Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the USA in the course of the space race.Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the ladies who worked as computers, mathematicians, as well as engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Air Transportation as well as NASA in between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.For more information regarding NASA goals, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.