Before her passing in 2022, Nichelle Nichols had been an advocate and spokesperson for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Starting in 1977, NASA hired Nichols to help promote a ...
A special space camp named after the late Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols will welcome teenage girls to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville this January. The Nichelle Nichols Foundation ...
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, has died at the age of 89. Her son ...
The late Nichelle Nichols, best known for playing Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trekand its subsequent feature films, was also a NASA pioneer. In the late 1970s, Nichols began working with NASA as a ...
Celestis, Inc., the pioneer and global leader in Memorial Spaceflights, announced today that it has been chosen to honor the late Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura, by launching a ...