Star Trek’s original Uhura is going on a NASA mission

Nichols has been an official ambassador for NSA since the 1970s, utilizing her fame as Star Trek’s communications officer to recruit minorities and women into the organization. The reflecting telescope, housed in the aircraft’s fuselage, is over 8 feet in diameter. Surprisingly, this is not the first time Nichols has been aboard a space telescope. “It’s an wonderful experience, you get a totally different perspective than from earth”.”Dr. Martin Luther King, quite some time after I’d first met him, approached me and said something along the lines of ‘Nichelle, whether you like it or not, you have become an symbol”.

“I do hope someone gets some great pictures”.

“I teased at something on my Reddit Ask Me Anything yesterday that I’d love to share with you all”. The television pioneer will instead work with the SOFIA mission, NASA’s initiative involving the world’s largest airborne observatory.

The actress revealed the news this weekend, writing on social media that she was “honored” to reveal that she’ll be on board the September 15 flight launching from NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.

I am honored to say that I will be among the first non-essential personnel to experience NASA’s newest telescope: SOFIA.

Now the 82-year-old actor has confirmed during a recent Reddit AMA that she in fact will be working with NASA, not in some Star Trek-like deep space mission, but to be a participant on NASA’s latest airborne telescope, SOFIA.

As the Inquisitr previously reported, Nichols announcement comes just months after she suffered a mild stroke, which resulted in hospitalization. Her groundbreaking role as Lt. Uhura undoubtedly factored into that opportunity.

Nichelle Nichols, aka the original Uhura from Star Trek, is going on a NASA mission.