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NASA to Join Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award Service

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will represent the firm during the course of a Congressional Gold Award service at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the girls that resulted in the room race, including the NASA mathematicians that helped land the very first rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Apollo Course.Hosted by Property Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Event will certainly happen inside Emancipation Hall at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to be amongst the speakers.The activity will definitely stream survive on the audio speaker's YouTube stations. The organization will certainly discuss a direct hyperlink on this advisory in advance of the event.Media without existing congressional accreditations on the Hill curious about joining the activity should RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Relevant information.Introduced through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Amounts Congressional Gold Award Act-- was actually signed right into rule later on that year. Honors will certainly include:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service to the United States as a mathematician.Legislative 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 as well as Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the United States during the course of the space nationality.Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the females that functioned as pcs, maths wizzard, and engineers at the National Advisory Board for Air Transportation and also NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.For more information concerning NASA missions, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.