As announced during April s First Contact Day celebration, Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA is now streaming on Paramount+. Directed by Todd Thompson, the film is a documentary chronicling the Star Trek star s work on the NASA recruiting program. The program [.]
At today’s virtual First Contact Day celebration, Paramount+ announced that
Woman In Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA is headed to the streaming service. Director Todd Thompson’s film explores how Nichols went from playing Lt. Uhura on
Star Trek to genuinely changing the real-life space program and the world with her campaign to bring diversity to NASA.
As a press release explains, “Despite an uphill battle against a bureaucracy that was hesitant to let her get involved, Nichols persevered and is credited by NASA for turning it into one of the most diverse independent agencies in the United States Federal Government.”
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Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role as Lieutenant Uhura in
Star Trek: The Original Series. But the 88-year-old actor also carries with her a lesser-known legacy: Playing a foundational role in the formation of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program and inspiring generations of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) leaders.
A new documentary titled
Woman In Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek, and the Remaking of NASA details the powerful, revealing, and uplifting story of Nichols’s advocacy and the crucial part she played in not just bringing diversity to NASA’s astronaut classes but in shaping the American space program we know today.