.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will embody the agency in the course of a Congressional Gold Medal event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, realizing the women who added to the space competition, consisting of the NASA mathematicians who aided land the first astronauts on the Moon under the firm's Beauty Course.Thrown by House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Event will definitely occur inside Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is actually counted on to become one of the audio speakers.The event is going to stream survive on the audio speaker's YouTube channel. The agency will certainly discuss a direct hyperlink on this advisory in advance of the activity.Media without existing congressional qualifications on capital curious about joining the event has to RSVP by Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Award Information.Offered through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Surprise Figures Legislative Gold Medal Act-- was actually authorized into regulation later that year. Honors will feature:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her company to the United States as a mathematician.Congressional Gold Medal to Doctor Christine Darden, for her company to the USA as an aerial developer.Congressional Gold Medals in celebration of the everyday lives of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in awareness of their solution to the United States during the course of the room ethnicity.Legislative Gold Medal in recognition of all the girls who functioned as computers, maths wizzard, as well as developers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA in between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.To read more about NASA purposes, browse through:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.