(18 Sep 2024)
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Washington DC – 18 September 2024
1. Various of Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honorees and lawmakers arriving
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"Congressional Gold Medal is the highest honor that Congress can bestow upon any group or individual, and we give it to show our national appreciation for the achievements and contributions of great Americans. Today, pursuant to H.R. 1396, we have the great pleasure of finally awarding this medal to the Hidden Figures (applause)"
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"As you all know, this has been a long time coming. It was now, many decades after these women began working for our nation’s space agencies, that we finally get to do appropriate honor for their work. You know these names. Well, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Dr. Christine Darden. In the history of Congress, we’ve only had a few occasions where we’ve been able to recognize those who’ve helped us explore what is the final frontier."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House:
"At a time in America when our nation was divided by color and often by gender, these women dared to step into the fields where they had previously been unwelcomed. They excelled in science and math and made groundbreaking contribution in aeronautics. But these women didn’t just crunch numbers and solve equations for the space program, they actually laid the very foundation upon which our rockets launched, and our astronauts flew and our nation soared. And although we call them hidden figures, we shouldn’t think of them merely as supporting characters in the American story of space exploration. They were the engineers and mathematicians who actually wrote the story itself."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator:
"The pioneers that we honor today, these hidden figures, their courage and imagination, brought us to the moon and their lessons, their legacy will send us back to the moon. And then imagine, just imagine when we leave our footprints on the red sands of Mars . Thanks to these people who are part of our NASA family, we will continue to sail on the cosmic sea to far off cosmic shores."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader:
"This Gold Medal ceremony celebrates the heroic contributions of four pioneering, patriotic and powerful engineers mathematicians, researchers and other women who stand on their shoulders, whose collective intellect, ingenuity and innovation helped America orbit the Earth and land. A man on the moon, accelerating the pace of space exploration and aiding our nation’s triumph in the space race."
7. Various of Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony with Speaker Johnson handing medals to honorees and posing with family members of Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan
8. Wide of families posing with Congressional leaders and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
STORYLINE:
The hidden figures of the space race were recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony on Wednesday.
The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her Connecticut home.
A medal was also given to all the women who worked as mathematicians, engineers and “human computers” in the U.S. space program from the 1930s to 1970s.
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