Nichelle Nichols died in July at 89 and will be memorialized among the stars via a Vulcan rocket launching her ashes into deep space with late 'Star Trek' colleagues.
Johnson said the mere opportunity is"a great honor" for his late trailblazing mother.
The cremated remains of late"Star Trek" actor James Doohan, who played Montgomery"Scotty" Scott and died in 2005, and visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who died in February, will also be included in the mission to mark the unique"Star Trek" reunion flight.Celestis has conducted 18 memorial space flights to date and has five more in the works.
Another option offered allows a capsule to orbit Earth on satellites or rockets that can circle for anywhere up to 200 years, and depending upon the altitude of the mission, they may re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere like a shooting star.request with their eminent scientist, Dr. Eugene Shoemaker. That flight was in 1999," Chafer said.
Fans from around the world can send their names, tributes, drawings and images to include in the mission with Nichols for free through Celestis MindFiles, which will be digitized and sent aboard the Enterprise Flight.