Nichols is credited with helping shatter racial stereotypes and redefining Hollywood roles for black actors at the height of the US Civil Rights movement.
The late actress Nichelle Nichols, best known as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, will become the latest member of the 1960s television series to be memorialised by having some of her earthly remains flown into space., is credited with helping shatter racial stereotypes and redefining Hollywood roles for black actors at the height of the US Civil Rights movement, as one of the first black women to portray an empowered character on network television.
The upcoming memorial flight will be aboard a Vulcan Centaur rocket, still under development by the Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance .
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