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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Amounts Congressional Gold Medal Event

.NASA Manager Costs Nelson will certainly embody the firm during a Legislative Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the ladies that supported the space race, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the first astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Apollo Course.Held through Home Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Ceremony will happen inside Emancipation Venue at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is actually expected to become amongst the audio speakers.The occasion will certainly stream reside on the speaker's YouTube channel. The organization will certainly discuss a direct web link on this advisory ahead of the celebration.Media without current legislative credentials on capital interested in taking part in the occasion needs to RSVP by Sept. 13, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Info.Offered by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Hidden Bodies Legislative Gold Medal Action-- was actually authorized right into regulation eventually that year. Awards are going to consist of:.Congressional Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her solution to the USA as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her company to the United States as an aerial engineer.Legislative Gold Medals in ceremony of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in recognition of their company to the USA in the course of the space nationality.Legislative Gold Medal in acknowledgment of all the women who acted as personal computers, mathematicians, and also developers at the National Advisory Board for Aviation as well as NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.To learn more regarding NASA goals, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.