‘Hidden Figures’ of the space race receive Congress’ highest honor at medal ceremony

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reacts after dropping a Congressional Gold Medal while posing for a photograph with NASA’s Johnson Space Center Senior Apollo Sample Processor and Lab Manager Andrea Mosie, left, at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to honor the Black women mathematicians of NASA who contributed to the space race and who were the subject of the book and movie “Hidden Figures,” at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., watches at right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)