Time.news – One last voyage into space for Nichelle NicholsLieutenant Uhura of the legendary TV series “Star Trek” who died on July 30 at the age of 89: un gram of its ashes and its DNA will be aboard the Vulcan rocket that the United Launch Alliance will send into orbit in December.
It is a mission that will have to bring the Peregrine landing module to the lunar surface for a series of tests in view of the Artemis manned NASA expeditions. The news was given by Celestis, a Houston company that for 25 years has specialized in sending the ashes of the dead to space.
In space they have already traveled the ashes of other people linked to the successful science fiction TV seriesfrom its creator Gene Roddenberry, to special effects manager Douglas Trumbull to Majel Barrett Roddenberry who played nurse Christine Chapel.
In 2008 the ashes of another “Star Trek” actor, James Doohan alias Scottychief engineer of the Enterprise, had been smuggled to the International Space Station by entrepreneur Richard Garriott during a 12-day mission as a private astronaut.
Asked by Doohan’s son, Chris, who later explained that his father’s wish was to get to the ISS. The request was denied for two more voyages, forcing Garriott to undertake clandestine means to obtain the ashes on board.
Garriott took out a card with Doohan’s photo and some of his ashes, which were laminated and hidden under the module floor covering. Nichelle Nichols was one of the protagonists of the legendary Star Trek TV series, the first, what for fans is the “classic” series.
This was announced by his son Kyle on his Facebook page. She the actress had been on the bridge of the spaceship Enterprise from 1966 until 1969 becoming the first African American to star in a series and moreover, in fiction, in a leadership role.
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