Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.
Vivica A. Fox
Michael Dorn
Nichelle Nichols
Ashley Eckstein
George Takei
Walter Koenig
Lynn Whitfield
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jeremy Bulloch
Pharrell Williams
Reginald Hudlin
Mae Jemison
Hillary Clinton
Al Sharpton
Martin Luther King III
Rod Roddenberry
Ed Dwight Jr.