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NASA's 'Hidden Figures' put forward for Congressional Gold Medal [i]U.S. lawmakers have plotted a trajectory towards bestowing the nation's highest civilian award to four of NASA's "Hidden Figures" — African American women whose roles as human "computers" helped to open outer space to astronauts in the early 1960s. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), along with 44 of their colleagues, have introduced a bipartisan bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden. The "Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act" (S.3321) aims to recognize the four women for their contributions to NASA's success during the early years of human space exploration and "highlight their broader impact on society; paving the way for women, especially women of color, in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."[/i]
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