She did it — Nichelle Nichols rode with the SOFIA telescope to the edge of space!
The largest airborne observatory in the world is a joint project by NASA and the German Aerospace Center.
Tonight we're studying formation of massive stars & evolution of planetary construction material w/ @NichelleIsUhura pic.twitter.com/kwDvSr8J8b
— SOFIAtelescope (@SOFIAtelescope) September 15, 2015
Hailing frequencies open. We're live from the stratosphere w/ @NichelleIsUhura Send us your questions w/ #askNASA747 pic.twitter.com/oTPhUz8frW
— SOFIAtelescope (@SOFIAtelescope) September 16, 2015
Photo: teamklingon: Found in Nichelle NIchols’ facebook. “The trouble with tribbles is that they appear… http://t.co/z2a8bNyXep
— Vampire Revenant (@vampirerevenant) September 17, 2015
Extraordinary!
This is amazing and awesome. Go Uhura!
Hopefully the telescope wasn’t on a misison to protect vital grain supplies
Totally brilliant. And she shares her ST name with the world’s first X-Ray space telescope:
Uhuru
(Yeah, it’s a different spelling, but it’s the word that Roddenberry had in mind, Swahili for ‘freedom’. Guess he thought English speakers might have problems with -u endings.)
Wonderful news bit, although I am getting worried: first the space station, and now on board another NASA project. Where are they hidden? The truth (about tribbles) is out there…
That’s simply delightful.
She’s looking great! (And at 82, just after a mild stroke, to be up in the stratosphere? When I grow up, I want to be just like her…)
If the tribbles made it to space can their poppa, David Gerrold, be next?
Normally, I just complain about SOFIA and the giant sucking sound its budget makes in NASA Astrophysics. This, though, makes me smile.
Go Nichelle! You are a remarkable woman in any decade (and universe).
Is that a tribble, or has she just absconded with Donald Trump’s hairpiece?