.NASA Administrator Costs Nelson will work with the agency throughout a Congressional Gold Medal service at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the women that added to the area race, featuring the NASA maths wizzard who aided land the very first astronauts on the Moon under the organization's Apollo Program.Hosted through Residence Sound Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Event are going to occur inside Emancipation Hall at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is anticipated to be amongst the speakers.The activity will certainly flow live on the sound speaker's YouTube channel. The company will certainly share a straight web link on this advisory before the celebration.Media without current congressional qualifications on capital interested in participating in the occasion must RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Info.Presented through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Covert Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act-- was authorized into law eventually that year. Honors are going to include:.Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her solution to the United States as a mathematician.Legislative Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aeronautical designer.Legislative Gold Awards in commemoration of the daily lives of Dorothy Vaughan as well as Mary Jackson, in acknowledgment of their service to the United States during the course of the room nationality.Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the females that acted as computers, maths wizzard, and also developers at the National Advisory Committee for Flight and also NASA in between the 1930s and also the 1970s.For more details about NASA objectives, check out:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.