.NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson will represent the organization throughout a Legislative Gold Award event at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, acknowledging the women that supported the space race, featuring the NASA mathematicians that assisted land the very first astronauts on the Moon under the company's Apollo Course.Hosted through House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Congressional Gold Award Event are going to happen inside Emancipation Hall at the USA Capitol Building in Washington. Nelson is actually anticipated to become among the audio speakers.The activity is going to stream survive the audio speaker's YouTube channel. The organization will discuss a direct link on this advisory before the activity.Media without current congressional accreditations on capital curious about joining the event has to RSVP through Sept. thirteen, to Abby Ronson at: abby.ronson@mail.house.gov.Medal Relevant information.Introduced through Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson on Feb. 27, 2019, H.R. 1396-- Surprise Figures Legislative Gold Medal Action-- was actually authorized right into law eventually that year. Awards will certainly include:.Legislative Gold Award to Katherine Johnson, in awareness of her service to the United States as a math wizzard.Congressional Gold Award to Doctor Christine Darden, for her service to the USA as an aerial developer.Legislative Gold Medals in ceremony of the lifespans of Dorothy Vaughan and also Mary Jackson, in awareness of their service to the USA during the course of the room ethnicity.Legislative Gold Medal in awareness of all the females who worked as computer systems, mathematicians, and also engineers at the National Advisory Board for Astronautics as well as NASA between the 1930s as well as the 1970s.To read more regarding NASA goals, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov.- side-.Meira Bernstein/ Cheryl WarnerHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1600meira.b.bernstein@nasa.gov/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov.