{"id":60452,"date":"2026-09-10T02:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/science-museum-sets-vulcan-salute-world-record-for-star-trek-at-60\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:23:26","slug":"science-museum-sets-vulcan-salute-world-record-for-star-trek-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/science-museum-sets-vulcan-salute-world-record-for-star-trek-at-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Museum sets Vulcan salute world record for Star Trek at 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A total of 934 people performed the Vulcan salute at the same time at the Science Museum in London, setting a Guinness World Record.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Participants had to hold the salute for one minute for Tuesday&#8217;s attempt to count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was overseen by Guinness World Records adjudicator Paulina Sapinska, who presented a certificate to the museum&#8217;s commercial operations director, Ben Lheureux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Glyn Morgan, the museum&#8217;s head of collections and principal curator, said staff had been &#8220;really excited at the idea of breaking a world record&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the 60th anniversary of Star Trek and we wanted something people would really remember,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgwjelejego?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 934 people performed the Vulcan salute at the same time at the Science Museum in London, setting a Guinness World Record. Participants had to hold the salute for one minute for Tuesday&#8217;s attempt to count. It was overseen by Guinness World Records adjudicator Paulina Sapinska, who presented a certificate to the museum&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7979,1061,4475,9024,4153,1828,16668,16667,510],"class_list":["post-60452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-museum","tag-record","tag-salute","tag-science","tag-sets","tag-star","tag-trek","tag-vulcan","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60454,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60452\/revisions\/60454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}