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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Bodies Legislative Gold Medal Ceremony

.NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson are going to stand for the agency throughout a Congressional Gold Award ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the girls who resulted in the area competition, featuring the NASA mathematicians that assisted land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Apollo System.Thrown by Property Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony will happen inside Liberation Venue at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to become among the speakers.The event is going to stream reside on the audio speaker's YouTube channel. The firm will discuss a straight hyperlink on this advisory before the celebration.Media without present congressional qualifications on the Hill interested in taking part in the occasion needs to RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Details.Introduced by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Amounts Legislative Gold Award Action-- was actually signed in to rule eventually that year. Honors will feature:.Congressional Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her solution to the United States as a math wizzard.Legislative Gold Award to Dr. Christine Darden, for her service to the USA as an aeronautical developer.Legislative Gold Medals in celebration of the lifespans of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their company to the USA in the course of the space ethnicity.Legislative Gold Award in awareness of all the women that served as computer systems, maths wizzard, and also engineers at the National Advisory Board for Flight and also NASA between the 1930s and the 1970s.For additional information about NASA purposes, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.