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NASA to Join Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Award Service

.NASA Administrator Costs Nelson will definitely work with the firm during a Congressional Gold Award event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, identifying the girls that brought about the room competition, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard who helped land the initial rocketeers on the Moon under the firm's Apollo Course.Organized by House Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Service will certainly take place inside Liberation Hall at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to be among the audio speakers.The event will stream reside on the audio speaker's YouTube stations. The organization is going to share a straight hyperlink on this advisory before the celebration.Media without current congressional qualifications on capital curious about joining the activity should RSVP through Sept. 13, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Info.Offered by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Bodies Congressional Gold Medal Action-- was actually authorized right into legislation eventually that year. Honors are going to consist of:.Congressional Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her company to the United States as a mathematician.Congressional Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aerial developer.Congressional Gold Awards in commemoration of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in recognition of their solution to the United States during the course of the room nationality.Congressional Gold Award in recognition of all the girls who worked as computer systems, mathematicians, as well as engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Air Transportation and NASA in between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.For more information about NASA missions, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.