Godspeed, Uhura: A Bit of Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols Will Go to Space - by b0yle
deliver Astrobotic’s robotic Peregrine lander to the lunar surface
for a round of scientific experiments, as a prelude to NASA’s crewed Artemis moon missions. But after the Vulcan booster and the Centaur upper stage have done their jobs, the Centaur and its attached payloads will head for an aptly named “graveyard orbit” circling the sun. Those payloads will include more than 150 Celestis capsules containing cremated remains, DNA samples and messages destined to endure in interplanetary space.
. Johnson said Celestis co-founder Charles Chafer raised the possibility of taking part in the Trek-themed memorial mission. “I was kind of in a state of shock, alternately crying my eyes out or feeling kind of numb,” Johnson said. “And then we were contacted by Charlie and the crew, and informed of this and invited to participate. The timing could not have been better, and it was a really amazing thing to contemplate.”
Nichols earned her fame as Uhura, the Starship Enterprise’s communications officer, in part because in 1968 she was in on what many consider the
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