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Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest | dG1fSlNka0pQUms3dDg

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00:00 [VIDEO PLAYBACK]

00:03 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:06 - What is a change in society?

00:08 A change is you cannot even imagine a world any other way.

00:13 - For most of the world, Nichelle Nichols

00:15 is Lieutenant Uhura, pop culture icon.

00:19 But what they don't know is that she changed the space program

00:22 forever.

00:24 - The astronaut corps was really kind of the old boys club.

00:26 It was all white Anglo-Saxon male.

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

00:31 But NASA said that women weren't being considered for the job.

00:35 - The argument was made that there were

00:36 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?

00:42 - We could have done it if they would just let us.

00:45 - I resented that and decided I was

00:48 going to do something about it.

00:50 - And she's saying--

00:52 - Where are my people?

00:56 - That was the spark that caused NASA to say,

00:59 how do we go about this?

01:00 - I challenged everyone to answer the question.

01:03 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.

01:18 - This is your NASA.

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

01:25 She ended up changing the world.

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

01:29 told to the American people.

01:31 - The world got to see that our women are strong, yes,

01:34 but they're also smart.

01:37 - We owe a great debt of gratitude to Michelle Nichols.

01:41 - All I can do is think of Michelle Nichols

01:43 as a force of nature.

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

01:51 they will see the world.

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02:00 (gentle music)

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