{"id":57566,"date":"2022-08-27T00:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ashes-of-late-star-trek-actor-nichelle-nichols-to-rocket-into-space\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T00:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T00:27:05","slug":"ashes-of-late-star-trek-actor-nichelle-nichols-to-rocket-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ashes-of-late-star-trek-actor-nichelle-nichols-to-rocket-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes Of Late ‘Star Trek’ Actor Nichelle Nichols To Rocket Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"
Humans have honored<\/span> their dead for centuries with burials at sea, but Nichelle Nichols belongs to the stars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nichols, the \u201cStar Trek\u201d actor, died last month in Silver City, New Mexico, at age 89. Private spaceflight company Celestis Inc. Friday that part of her ashes and a DNA sample will travel up to 186 million miles aboard its Vulcan rocket, which was named in honor of another \u201cStar Trek\u201d character. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe are truly honored to add a legendary actress, activist, and educator to the Enterprise Flight manifest,\u201d wrote Celestis CEO Charles M. Chafer. \u201cNow our Enterprise Flight will have on board the person who most completely embodied the vision of Star Trek as\u2026 diverse, inclusive, and exploring the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Celestis has sent cremated remains into space since the 1990s, according to Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nichols broke barriers with her role as Nyota Uhura in the original \u201cStar Trek\u201d series and films, becoming instrumental in the fight for Black representation on screen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Her kiss with white \u201cStar Trek\u201d colleague William Shatner in a 1968 episode was the first interracial kiss on American television, according to NBC News. Nichols also inspired Mae Jemison to become an astronaut, with Jemison becoming the first Black woman in outer space in 1992.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cEvery role on Star Trek was as significant as it was legendary,\u201d wrote Celestis in the statement. \u201cMs. Nichols was the first black woman in a leading role in a network television series to portray a character that was not shackled by the stereotypes of Hollywood’s past.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n