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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Amounts Congressional Gold Award Ceremony

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will certainly represent the company throughout a Congressional Gold Medal service at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the girls who supported the area race, featuring the NASA mathematicians that helped land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Beauty Course.Hosted by Home Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Event are going to take place inside Liberation Hall at the United State Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is counted on to be amongst the speakers.The event will certainly stream reside on the sound speaker's YouTube stations. The firm will definitely share a straight hyperlink on this advisory before the celebration.Media without existing legislative references on capital curious about participating in the activity has to RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Info.Introduced by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Numbers Legislative Gold Medal Act-- was signed in to legislation later on that year. Honors are going to include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her solution to the USA as a mathematician.Legislative Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her solution to the United States as an aerial developer.Legislative Gold Awards in ceremony of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in awareness of their solution to the United States in the course of the space ethnicity.Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the women that acted as computers, maths wizzard, as well as developers at the National Advisory Board for Flight and also NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.To read more concerning NASA purposes, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.