According to foreign media reports, "Uhura" Nichelle Nix of "Star Trek: The Originals" passed away from natural causes a month ago at the age of 89. Recently, Celestis, a private space flight company that cooperates with NASA, announced that it will send some of Knicks' ashes to space.
This flight is planned to be carried out later this year and will be carried by the United Launch Alliance's "Vulcan" rocket. At that time, the "rocket" will be lifted off from Cape Canaveral and fly over the Webb Space Telescope . Entering the planetary deep space of 150 million kilometers to 300 million kilometers. Celestis said: "Vulcan" will become a permanent human outpost vessel that has reached the farthest distance and one of the pathfinders for human space exploration.
Celestis provides services for sending humans to space and "space burial" of ashes. One of the missions of the "Vulcan" voyage will be to transport the ashes of 200 people, including the Knicks and the " Star Trek " crew family. Gene Roddenberry , Marelle Roddenberry and James Doohan. Some of the ashes of Gene and Doohan have experienced space travel before.
Knicks’ son Kyle Johnson provided Celestis with a sample of his mother’s ashes and his own DNA, and said: “I’m sure she would have preferred to make the journey herself, but this is pretty close.”
Source/NetEase Entertainment
editor/Qiao Ying
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