On Wednesday, stardate 2010-02-17, Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek series, came to give a talk at Ames entitled What's in it for Me? While she was here, we gave her a presentation about Kepler entitled, What's in it for You. Or we should have! This presentation was followed by a tour of the Kepler SOC.
Other members of the SOC shot some photos of her visit as well:
You can view a slideshow of the following photos.
Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) is introduced to Kepler |
The crew of the Starship Kepler |
Nichelle laughs at the artist's conception of what life is like on hot Jupiters |
Jon explains Kepler's really stellar light curves |
Jon played a few aural representations of light curves, but threw in a recording of Lt. Uhura for fun |
Roger presents Nichelle with a memento of her visit |
Nichelle & Jon |
Roger, Nichelle, and Jon |
PT, Roger, Nichelle, Jon, & Dave |
Sean & Nichelle |
Nichelle & Bill |
Nichelle & Chris |
Nichelle & Dave |
Sally, Nichelle, Jim, and Wendy live long and prosper |
Would you get a load of this guy? |
Dave, Nichelle, and Todd kid around while the Kepler computing clusters find planets |
Dave, Nichelle, and Chris clown around too |
Pat, Dave "Evil Eye" Pletcher, Nichelle, Todd, Kamal, Sean, and Mike |
Nichelle digs being in a NASA restricted area |
Nichelle poses with PT's Star Trek paraphernalia, Roger, and Doug |
Nichelle gives her "What's in it for Me?" speech in the Ames auditorium |
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