Woman in Motion | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest | dG1fSXI4WWhuRWphYjQ

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00:00 She went into it to be an actress,

00:02 candidate of changing the world.

00:03 What is a change in society?

00:09 A change is, you cannot even imagine a world any other way.

00:14 For most of the world,

00:15 Nichelle Nichols is Lieutenant Uhura, pop culture icon.

00:19 But what they don't know is that

00:21 she changed the space program forever.

00:23 The astronaut corps was really kind of the old boys club.

00:27 It was all white, Anglo-Saxon male.

00:29 Oh, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut,

00:32 but NASA said that women weren't being considered for the job.

00:35 The argument was made that there were no qualified black people.

00:38 When is America going to put a woman in space?

00:40 When is America going to put a black person in space?

00:43 We could have done it if they would just let us.

00:46 I resented that and decided I was going to do something about it.

00:51 And she's saying...

00:53 Where are my people?

00:57 That was the spark that caused NASA to say,

00:59 "How do we go about this?"

01:01 I challenged everyone to answer the question,

01:04 and NASA said, "How about Lieutenant Uhura?"

01:07 Ms. Nichols has gone from science fiction to science fact.

01:13 I will bring you so many qualified people,

01:16 the world will never be the same again.

01:19 This is your NASA.

01:23 She went into it to be an actress.

01:26 She ended up changing the world.

01:27 I think it's one of the most fantastic stories

01:30 to be told to the American people.

01:32 The world got to see that our women are strong, yes,

01:35 but they're also smart.

01:36 We owe a great debt of gratitude to Michelle Nichols.

01:42 All I can do is think of Michelle Nichols as a force of nature.

01:46 I said, "If they let me in the door, I will open it so wide,

01:52 they will see the world."

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