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Watch Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Uhura, recruiting for NASA in 1977 [1]

['David Pescovitz']

Date: 2022-08-01

After Star Trek: The Original Series was cancelled, Nichelle Nichols, aka Lieutenant Uhura, volunteered her time to help NASA recruit women and minorities to join the space agency. The 1977 video above is from that era.

NASA responded to Nichols' death yesterday with the following tweet:

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