Posted on 08/28/2022 2:41:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The ashes of late Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols will be launched into space later this year.
Celestis, a private company that conducts memorial space flights, announced Friday that a portion of Nichols' ashes and a DNA sample will be launched into space by United Launch Alliance and released from a Vulcan Centaur rocket.
"We are truly honored to add a legendary actress, activist and educator to the Enterprise Flight manifest," Charles M. Chafer, co-founder and CEO of Celestis, said in a statement.
Nichols died July 31 at age 89. She was one of the first Black women to play a major role on a TV show and was best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura on the flagship Star Trek series.
The rocket will also carry the ashes of other Star Trek figures including Gene Roddenberry, who created the series; his wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played Nurse Chapel in the original series; James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott; and Douglas Trumbull, who created visual effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
The flight will travel between 90 and 180 miles into deep space and launch more than 200 flight capsules containing ashes, messages of greetings and DNA samples.
Celestis is also collecting tribute messages that fans can submit via the company's website.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Rest in Space.
“The flight will travel between 90 and 180 miles into deep space”
Don’t consider that “deep space” but ok with it.
The whole thing is ok even if the company is trying to make a buck in an odd way.
More free pollution; courtesy of Planet Earth.
The ashes are not high enough to be in permanent orbit.
They basically burn up in reentry.
They basically burn up in reentry.
I'm OK with that; A little history.
Thanks
At least they’re not bullets then (paint flecks in orbit can act like bullets).
I thought Doohan’s ashes had already been launched?
Do Estes rockets actually go that high?
Something kind of right about this.
How non-permanent?
I would be rather pleased to know I had absorbed a few more molecules of James Doohan, and I’m ok with the others’.
—”The whole thing is ok even if the company is trying to make a buck in an odd way.”
The film version of The Loved One covered this back in 1965.
A fun/love story.
Godspeed Ma’am!!!
Right?!
Very fitting.
Surprised Leonard Nemoy didn’t do this - but he and William Shatner are both Jewish, so probably a No-No. ;)
Reminds me of this old movie THE LOVED ONE(1965).
Quick trip!
Dividing the decedent's ashes into individual portions and "disposing" of them separately - sometimes even years apart - appears to be a "thing."
Regards,
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