‘Star Trek’ Icon Nichelle Nichols’ Ashes Going to Deep Space on Vulcan Rocket

‘Star Trek’ legend Nichelle Nichols is heading back to space with numerous of her Business crewmates … part of an extremely fitting objective to put their remains into orbit.

Nichelle, who starred as Lieutenant Uhura and passed away back in July, will have her ashes included to the payload of a Vulcan rocket introducing later on this year for the moon and beyond.

United Release Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur objective will initially provide a robotic lunar lander — to scout for NASA’s future Artemis flights to the moon — however then it will continue much deeper into the planetary system for the ‘Star Trek’ homage.

The rocket will provide Nichelle’s remains — in addition to ‘Star Trek’ developer Gene Roddenberry, James Doohan (“Scotty”) and Majel Barrett Roddenberry (“Nurse Chapel”) — into a so-called “graveyard orbit” around the sun.

When it comes to the truth, the ‘Trek’ greats’ last flight will be on a “Vulcan” space rocket — Nichelle’s child, Kyle Johnson, states “I’m sure she would have much preferred to go on the shuttle, but this was a pretty close second.”