Astronaut gives a heart-warming send off to Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy
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Virts has been living on board the International Space Station since September, 2014 and he snapped a photo of himself giving a Vulcan salute when the ISS passed over Boston - the city in which Nimoy was born.
The Vulcans are a race in Star Trek that Spock's father belonged to. Nimoy himself actually came up with the idea for the Vulcan salute, and its become the most iconic symbol of the show. The salute means "Live long and prosper."
Virts took this photo from the largest window on the ISS called the cupola:
Nimoy received a public outreach award in 2010 from the Space Foundation for his role as Spock.
NASA gave its own tribute to Nimoy when the organization tweeted a photo from 1976 that showed the space shuttle Enterprise, named after the famous starship from Star Trek.
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