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NASA to Participate In Hidden Bodies Congressional Gold Award Service

.NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson will certainly stand for the agency in the course of a Congressional Gold Medal service at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the females that helped in the room competition, including the NASA mathematicians that assisted land the 1st rocketeers on the Moon under the agency's Beauty Course.Held through Home Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Service will definitely occur inside Liberation Venue at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Nelson is actually counted on to become one of the audio speakers.The celebration will definitely stream reside on the audio speaker's YouTube channel. The company will discuss a direct hyperlink on this advisory in advance of the occasion.Media without existing congressional accreditations on capital curious about joining the celebration has to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Relevant information.Offered through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Figures Congressional Gold Award Action-- was signed right into law later that year. Awards are going to consist of:.Legislative Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her service to the USA as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aerial designer.Congressional Gold Medals in celebration of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the United States in the course of the room race.Congressional Gold Award in awareness of all the girls that served as computers, mathematicians, as well as engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Air Transportation and NASA between the 1930s and also the 1970s.For more details regarding NASA goals, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.