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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Numbers Congressional Gold Award Event

.NASA Manager Bill Nelson will work with the agency in the course of a Legislative Gold Award ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the girls that resulted in the room race, featuring the NASA mathematicians who helped land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Beauty Plan.Organized through Residence Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Service will certainly occur inside Liberation Hall at the United State Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to become among the speakers.The occasion is going to flow reside on the speaker's YouTube network. The firm is going to share a direct hyperlink on this advisory ahead of the celebration.Media without current congressional references on capital curious about participating in the activity has to RSVP by Sept. 13, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Information.Offered by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Hidden Numbers Congressional Gold Award Act-- was actually signed right into rule eventually that year. Awards will include:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her service to the United States as a math wizzard.Legislative Gold Award to Dr. Christine Darden, for her solution to the USA as an aeronautical designer.Congressional Gold Awards in ceremony of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the United States during the space race.Congressional Gold Award in acknowledgment of all the ladies who acted as personal computers, maths wizzard, and developers at the National Advisory Board for Aeronautics and NASA in between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.For more information about NASA missions, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.