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NASA to Participate In Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award Ceremony

.NASA Manager Bill Nelson will definitely stand for the agency during the course of a Legislative Gold Award ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the girls that helped in the room race, consisting of the NASA mathematicians that helped land the first astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Beauty Program.Held by Home Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony are going to occur inside Liberation Hall at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is expected to be amongst the audio speakers.The celebration will certainly flow survive on the sound speaker's YouTube stations. The organization will share a direct link on this advisory ahead of the occasion.Media without existing congressional credentials on the Hill curious about taking part in the event needs to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Information.Launched by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Amounts Congressional Gold Award Act-- was signed into law later that year. Honors will certainly include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her company to the United States as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Christine Darden, for her solution to the USA as an aeronautical engineer.Congressional Gold Medals in commemoration of the daily lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in recognition of their company to the United States during the course of the space race.Legislative Gold Medal in awareness of all the females who served as pcs, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Board for Astronautics and also NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.For more information about NASA goals, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.