NASA and Nichelle Nichols

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Famous for her role as Star Trek's Uhura, Nichelle Nichols discusses in part 2 of her interview how she also played a vital role in influencing the modern era of NASA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:16.4	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:17.9	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and I also serve as the director of New York
0:23.2	City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:25.5	And I want to welcome my co-host, Leanne Lorde.
0:29.1	Star Trek Geek Babes, that's accurate.
0:31.8	Yes, absolutely.
0:32.8	I wear my Star Trek fandom proudly on my sleeve.
0:35.4	Well, what we're doing this week is coming up on the part two of my two-part interview
0:40.8	with Michelle Nichols.
0:42.7	She, of course, was Lieutenant Uhura of the original Star Trek series and from the Star
0:47.2	Trek films.
0:48.2	She was an actress, a dancer, you might not have known that, also a singer.
0:52.6	And perhaps her most groundbreaking, what does she mean to you, because she was groundbreaking
1:01.0	for a lot of reasons.
1:02.0	Oh, absolutely.
1:03.0	Absolutely.
1:04.0	I mean, well, first of all, let's be clear, Lieutenant Uhura on the bridge slam an outfit,
1:08.3	love the boots.
1:09.3	But it was also fourth in command.
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