Astronaut Sends Vulcan Tribute to Leonard Nimoy From Final Frontier
American astronaut Terry Virts tweeted this photo of the split-fingered Vulcan salute from the International Space Station as a tribute to actor Leonard Nimoy on Saturday. Nimoy, who played the half-human, half-Vulcan Mr. Spock on the classic television series “Star Trek” died Friday at 83.
Nimoy was a native of Boston and the Massachusetts coastline can be seen to the right of Virts’ hand.
First published February 28th 2015, 8:48 am
We learned of his death while here in Guanajuato, about as far from outer space as one get in in North America
What a perfect send off!
Reblogged this on FiftyFourandAHalf and commented:
The PERFECT SENDOFF for Leonard Nemoy. RIP.
awesome…
“This is the shape of the letter shin,” Nimoy said in the 2013 interview, making the famous “V” gesture. The Hebrew letter shin, he noted, is the first letter in several Hebrew words, including Shaddai (a name for God), Shalom (the word for hello, goodbye and peace) and Shekhinah, which he defined as “the feminine aspect of God who supposedly was created to live among humans.”