{"id":54046,"date":"2021-02-02T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=54046"},"modified":"2021-02-02T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:31:32","slug":"reminder-nichols-movie-showing-in-theaters-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2021\/02\/reminder-nichols-movie-showing-in-theaters-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Nichols Movie Showing In Theaters Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, the first airings of <em>Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA<\/em> will be in select theaters for a special limited engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a description of the movie: &#8221; Directed by <strong>Todd Thompson<\/strong> (<em>The Highwaymen, PRE FAB!<\/em>), the film chronicles how Nichols transformed her sci-fi television stardom into a real-life science career when, in 1977, she embarked on a campaign to bring diversity to <em>NASA<\/em>. Nichols formed the company <em>Women In Motion, Inc.<\/em> and recruited more than eight thousand African-American, Asian and Latino women and men for the agency. Nichelle and her program continue to influence the younger generation of astronauts as well, including <strong>Mae Jemison<\/strong>, the first female African-American astronaut in space. Despite an uphill battle against a bureaucracy that was hesitant to let her get involved, Nichols persevered and is credited by <em>NASA<\/em> for turning it into one of the most diverse independent agencies in the United States Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to Nichols, <em>Woman In Motion<\/em> features notable celebrities, activists, scientists and astronauts including <strong>Neil deGrasse Tyson, George Takei, Pharrell Williams, Martin Luther King III, Al Sharpton, Vivica A. Fox, Walter Koenig, Rod Roddenberry, Michael Dorn, Guy Bluford, Charles Bolden, Ivor Dawson, Frederik Gregory<\/strong> and <strong>Benjamin Crump<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For participating locations and tickets visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathomevents.com\/\">Fathom Events<\/a>. Other showings will take place February 4 and 6.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a new clip from the movie below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYT9gHIjK2s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, the first airings of Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2408,10172],"class_list":["post-54046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-nichols","tag-woman-in-motion"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WomanInMotion020221.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54049,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54046\/revisions\/54049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}