.NASA Supervisor Expense Nelson will certainly exemplify the company in the course of a Legislative Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, identifying the women who contributed to the space race, consisting of the NASA maths wizzard that helped land the first rocketeers on the Moon under the company's Apollo System.Hosted through House Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Service will certainly occur inside Liberation Hall at the USA Capitol in Washington. Nelson is expected to be one of the audio speakers.The celebration will certainly flow live on the sound speaker's YouTube channel. The organization is going to discuss a direct web link on this advisory in advance of the activity.Media without current congressional accreditations on capital thinking about taking part in the occasion has 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 Medal Act-- was signed in to rule later that year. Awards will certainly include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service to the USA as a mathematician.Legislative Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aerial designer.Congressional Gold Medals in ceremony of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan as well as Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the United States throughout the room ethnicity.Legislative Gold Medal in awareness of all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and also engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aviation and NASA between the 1930s and also the 1970s.For more information about NASA purposes, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- end-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.