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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Amounts Congressional Gold Medal Event

.NASA Manager Costs Nelson will work with the firm during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the females that helped in the area competition, including the NASA maths wizzard who aided land the first rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Apollo System.Held through House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Event will happen inside Liberation Venue at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to become one of the sound speakers.The celebration is going to stream reside on the speaker's YouTube channel. The company will certainly discuss a direct web link on this advisory before the activity.Media without existing legislative qualifications on the Hill considering joining the activity needs to RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Info.Presented through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Hidden Amounts Congressional Gold Award Act-- was actually signed into law eventually that year. Honors are going to include:.Congressional Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her service to the USA as a math wizzard.Legislative Gold Award to Physician Christine Darden, for her service to the USA as an aeronautical designer.Congressional Gold Awards in commemoration of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in awareness of their solution to the United States during the course of the area race.Legislative Gold Award in awareness of all the women who worked as computer systems, mathematicians, as well as designers at the National Advisory Board for Astronautics and also NASA between the 1930s and also the 1970s.For more details about NASA missions, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.