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NASA to Participate In Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Medal Event

.NASA Manager Costs Nelson will definitely stand for the organization during the course of a Congressional Gold Award event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the girls that contributed to the room competition, featuring the NASA maths wizzard that assisted land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the organization's Beauty Course.Organized through Residence Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Event will certainly take place inside Liberation Venue at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is actually expected to be one of the speakers.The event will stream survive on the speaker's YouTube channel. The organization will definitely share a direct link on this advisory before the occasion.Media without existing congressional accreditations on capital thinking about joining the celebration has to RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Info.Launched by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Amounts Legislative Gold Medal Action-- was actually signed in to regulation later on that year. Honors will consist of:.Legislative Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her solution to the USA as a mathematician.Congressional Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her company to the United States as an aeronautical engineer.Legislative Gold Medals in commemoration of the lifespans of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in awareness of their solution to the USA during the area race.Legislative Gold Award in awareness of all the girls that functioned as computers, maths wizzard, and developers at the National Advisory Committee for Air Transportation and NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.For more information about NASA objectives, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.