While it's not quite beaming up to a spacecraft, a "Star Trek" celebrity plans to take part in a special NASA flight to observe the universe.
Nichelle Nichols, best known for playing Lt. Nyota Uhura on "Star Trek: The Original Series," will join the crew of the SOFIA (Stratospheric Infrared Observatory) aircraft on Sept. 17, the star announced July 31.
"I am honored to say that I will be among the first non-essential personnel to experience NASA's newest telescope: SOFIA," Nichols wrote on StarPower, a website celebrities use to raise money for charities.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2015, @09:29AM
Nobody knows who Nichelle Nichols is.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 07 2015, @04:46PM
Michelle Nichols was on Star Trek back when there was a special word for Whites having sex with Blacks -- Miscegnation.
That didn't stop me (a White, blonde-haired blue-eyed male) from wanting to impregnate her, though. I would still impregnate her now, and then put Michelle in her starfleet skirt and walk her and our good-looking mongrel babies through the 'hood to make all of her colored compatriots jealous with rage, and to show them who's boss.