![]() ![]() Smith to cut off a couple of locks of the actor’s hair as keepsakes. ![]() When Kelley died all those years ago, his wife Carolyn asked a family friend and caregiver named Kris M. “No mission to deep space would be complete without a ship’s doctor.” “It’s particularly notable that we announce DeForest Kelley’s addition to our Enterprise Flight on Star Trek Day,” he said in a news release. ![]() Nichols’ ashes and DNA were added to Celestis’ manifest just a couple of weeks ago.Ĭharles Chafer, co-founder and CEO of Celestis, took note of the fact that today is celebrated as Star Trek Day. In addition to Kelley, the Star Trek personages represented on the flight include Nichelle Nichols (who played Lieutenant Uhura), James Doohan (who played Scotty, the starship’s chief engineer), Majel Barrett Roddenberry (Nurse Chapel), series creator Gene Roddenberry and visual-effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. The prime directive for the Vulcan launch is to send Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander to the lunar surface for a NASA-supported mission, but after the Centaur has done its job, it will go into a “graveyard orbit” around the sun, along with the capsules packed aboard the spacecraft. ![]()
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