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Historic Moon Mission Is Falling Apart After ‘Critical’ Fuel Loss
A mission to land a private U.S. lander on the Moon, and the first U.S. lander since the Apollo era, looks to be ending before it even had a chance to get started. The mission was ticking along nicely, until it wasn’t. Peregrine, perched atop United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, blasted off to space from…
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Star Trek Looks Back on 55 Years of Boldly Going in a New Documentary Series
From the looks of this trailer, documentary series The Centre Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek will consist mostly of interviews with cast and crew members across the beloved, long-running franchise — providing sort of an oral history of the show. A spicy oral history of the show, if the intriguingly fun soundbites in its…
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Nichelle Nichols’ New NASA Documentary Is as Unflinching as It Is Romantic
Early on in the new documentary Woman in Motion, Star Trek legend Nichelle Nichols discusses the idea of the blurred lines between the fantastical and the real in her job as Lieutenant Uhura, a character in equal parts history-making and yet also held back by the harsh realities of the era her character was made…
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Drunk History’s Take On The Legacy Of Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols Is A Booze-Fuelled Delight
Video: Nichelle Nichols’ time as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek is iconic – but at this point, so is the story of how she nearly quit the series after a season. So much so, that Drunk History‘s retelling of the moment Nichols met Martin Luther King Jr manages to cover the whole thing pretty hilariously.