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NASA to Participate In Hidden Bodies Legislative Gold Award Ceremony

.NASA Manager Bill Nelson are going to work with the firm during the course of a Congressional Gold Award event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the females that resulted in the room race, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who aided land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo System.Hosted through Property Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony will occur inside Emancipation Hall at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is actually expected to be among the audio speakers.The activity is going to stream reside on the speaker's YouTube network. The firm will certainly discuss a direct link on this advisory ahead of the activity.Media without existing legislative qualifications on the Hill interested in taking part in the celebration should RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Relevant information.Presented through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Surprise Bodies Legislative Gold Award Action-- was authorized into law eventually that year. Honors will certainly include:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her company to the USA as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her solution to the United States as an aerial designer.Legislative Gold Awards in ceremony of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their solution to the United States in the course of the space nationality.Congressional Gold Award in acknowledgment of all the ladies who functioned as computers, mathematicians, as well as engineers at the National Advisory Board for Air Transportation and NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.For additional information regarding NASA objectives, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.