{"id":57633,"date":"2022-08-27T02:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nichelle-nichols-to-become-latest-star-trek-star-to-have-ashes-sent-into-space-star-trek\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T02:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T02:06:01","slug":"nichelle-nichols-to-become-latest-star-trek-star-to-have-ashes-sent-into-space-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nichelle-nichols-to-become-latest-star-trek-star-to-have-ashes-sent-into-space-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichelle Nichols to become latest Star Trek star to have ashes sent into space | Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"
The late actor Nichelle Nichols, best known as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, will become the latest member of the 1960s television series to be memorialized by having some of her earthly remains flown into space.<\/p>\n
Nichols, who died on 30 July at age 89, is credited with helping shatter racial stereotypes and redefining Hollywood roles for Black actors at the height of the US civil rights movement, as one of the first Black women to portray an empowered character on network television .<\/p>\n
Now she has been added to the posthumous passenger manifest of a real-life rocketship due to carry a collection of vials containing cremated ashes and DNA samples from dozens of departed space enthusiasts on a final, and eternal voyage around the sun, according to organizers of the tribute.<\/p>\n