Originally published at: Lieutenant Uhura's ashes headed to space | Boing Boing
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Where she belongs, among the stars.
Fly well, fly far.
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Godspeed, Ms. Nichols.
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It’s my understanding that William Shatner is frequently a grade-A asshole but I still love the story about how he and Nichols forced the network to allow the first interracial kiss on television by intentionally sabotaging the non-kissing take of that scene.
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James Doohan’s ashes didn’t make it to space. The Space X rocket carrying them exploded over the Pacific Ocean in 2008.
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Not the time for pedantry, dude.
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Also inaccurate since some of Doohan’s ashes not only made it to space but occupied a place of honor on the ISS.
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Plus there was the 2012 launch.
His ashes just may have had more rocket rides than anyone else’s.
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New canon: a bit of set dressing in an episode of Star Trek Picard shows Nyota Uhura retires as Captain of the U.S.S. Leondegrance, where she lead deep space mapping, 100+ first contact missions and recommissioned the ship to be a Starfleet Academy training vessel, making her the longest serving captain in Star Trek while leading an entire generation of new Starfleet officers. Nice sendoff.
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At this rate, he’ll rack up enough frequent flyer miles to buy his own orbital distillery.
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+1 Movie Nerd for you 
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Is it dusty in here?
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And also learned to do the funny-split-fingered-Vulcan-greeting, which I learned as a schoolboy and can still master, albeit only with my right hand now. Still cool.
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