Overview

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.

Cast

Vivica A. Fox

Self

Michael Dorn

Self

Nichelle Nichols

Self

Ashley Eckstein

Self

George Takei

Self

Walter Koenig

Self

Lynn Whitfield

Self

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Self

Jeremy Bulloch

Self

Pharrell Williams

Self

Reginald Hudlin

Selfz

Mae Jemison

Self (archive footage)