WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) (2nd-L) 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 (L) during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. Also pictured from center, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Author Margot Lee Shetterly. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: A Congressional Gold Medal for Mary Jackson is visible during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s" often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: A Congressional Gold Medal for Christine Darden is visible during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and other participants pose with the family of the recipients for photographs during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: A Congressional Gold Medal for all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s" is visible during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: A Congressional Gold Medal for Dorothy Vaughan is visible during a ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) (2nd-L) drops a Congressional gold medal while posing for a photograph with NASA's Johnson Space Center Senior Apollo Sample Processor and Lab Manager Andrea Mosie (L) during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to family members of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, and 'human computers' in the U.S space program from the 1930s to the 1970s," often referred to as the "hidden figures" of the space race. Also pictured from center, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Author Margot Lee Shetterly. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

FILE - NASA engineer Christine Darden, who was one of the "human computers" employed by NASA during the space race, attends a Senate subcommittee panel on NASA exploration on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)