.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson will certainly embody the company during the course of a Congressional Gold Award ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the girls who supported the space competition, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who helped land the initial astronauts on the Moon under the agency's Apollo Program.Hosted through Property Audio Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Medal Event are going to occur inside Liberation Hall at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is expected to be among the speakers.The event will stream survive on the audio speaker's YouTube stations. The firm will share a direct hyperlink on this advisory before the event.Media without existing legislative references on capital curious about taking part in the celebration should RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Information.Introduced by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Concealed Amounts Congressional Gold Award Action-- was actually signed in to regulation eventually that year. Awards will certainly consist of:.Legislative Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service to the USA as a mathematician.Legislative Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her solution to the USA as an aeronautical engineer.Congressional Gold Awards in celebration of the daily lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in awareness of their service to the United States in the course of the space nationality.Congressional Gold Award in awareness of all the girls that acted as personal computers, mathematicians, and developers at the National Advisory Board for Astronautics and also NASA between the 1930s and also the 1970s.For more details about NASA purposes, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.