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NASA to Join Hidden Amounts Congressional Gold Award Service

.NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson are going to represent the agency in the course of a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the females who added to the room competition, including the NASA maths wizzard that aided land the first rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Apollo Course.Thrown by Home Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Ceremony will occur inside Liberation Hall at the United State Capitol in Washington. Nelson is counted on to become amongst the sound speakers.The event will certainly stream survive on the speaker's YouTube channel. The agency will share a straight web link on this advisory before the event.Media without existing legislative credentials on the Hill considering taking part in the celebration needs to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Details.Introduced through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Covert Figures Legislative Gold Award Action-- was signed into rule eventually that year. Honors will certainly feature:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her service to the United States as a mathematician.Congressional Gold Award to Dr. Christine Darden, for her company to the USA as an aerial developer.Congressional Gold Awards in celebration of the daily lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their company to the United States in the course of the room ethnicity.Congressional Gold Medal in acknowledgment of all the girls who worked as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Air Transportation and NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.For more information regarding NASA goals, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.