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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Bodies Congressional Gold Award Ceremony

.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson are going to stand for the company during the course of a Legislative Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the girls that resulted in the area competition, including the NASA maths wizzard who assisted land the initial rocketeers on the Moon under the organization's Beauty System.Thrown through Residence Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Service will certainly happen inside Liberation Venue at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is counted on to become among the sound speakers.The celebration is going to flow reside on the sound speaker's YouTube network. The agency will certainly discuss a direct link on this advisory in advance of the event.Media without existing congressional qualifications on the Hill interested in participating in the celebration has to RSVP by Sept. 13, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Details.Launched by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Figures Legislative Gold Award Act-- was signed in to regulation eventually that year. Honors are going to include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her solution to the USA as a mathematician.Congressional Gold Award to Dr. Christine Darden, for her service to the USA as an aerial engineer.Congressional Gold Awards in celebration of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their company to the USA during the space ethnicity.Congressional Gold Award in awareness of all the ladies that functioned as computer systems, mathematicians, and developers at the National Advisory Committee for Aviation and also NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.To read more concerning NASA goals, go to:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.