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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Service

.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson will definitely embody the company throughout a Legislative Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the women who supported the area race, including the NASA mathematicians who assisted land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the organization's Beauty Plan.Thrown by Residence Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Ceremony will take place inside Liberation Venue at the United State Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is counted on to become among the audio speakers.The activity is going to flow survive on the audio speaker's YouTube channel. The company will share a straight hyperlink on this advisory before the occasion.Media without current legislative credentials on the Hill curious about joining the activity should RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Details.Presented through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Surprise Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act-- was authorized right into rule later on that year. Awards will feature:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service to the United States as a mathematician.Congressional Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the USA as an aerial developer.Congressional Gold Awards in celebration of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their company to the United States throughout the area nationality.Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the ladies who worked as computer systems, mathematicians, and designers at the National Advisory Committee for Flight as well as NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.For more information about NASA missions, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.