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NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Legislative Gold Award Event

.NASA Manager Expense Nelson will definitely represent the firm in the course of a Legislative Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the ladies that added to the room race, including the NASA mathematicians that aided land the 1st astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo Plan.Hosted by House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Event will happen inside Emancipation Hall at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is actually counted on to be amongst the audio speakers.The event will flow reside on the sound speaker's YouTube channel. The company will share a straight hyperlink on this advisory before the activity.Media without existing legislative references on the Hill curious about participating in the occasion should RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Information.Introduced through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Bodies Legislative Gold Award Act-- was signed in to rule later on that year. Awards are going to feature:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in acknowledgment of her solution to the United States as a math wizzard.Legislative Gold Medal to Physician Christine Darden, for her service to the USA as an aeronautical developer.Legislative Gold Awards in commemoration of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan as well as Mary Jackson, in recognition of their solution to the United States throughout the room race.Legislative Gold Medal in acknowledgment of all the girls that worked as personal computers, mathematicians, as well as engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Air Transportation and also NASA in between the 1930s and the 1970s.To learn more regarding NASA objectives, see:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.