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If you're a Star Trek fan, this is definitely gonna be something you want to hear (pun intended). The Vulcan ear tips worn in Star Trek: The Original Series and subsequent films by Leonard Nimoy's Spock will be coming to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

The ear tips were donated to the museum by the family of Nimoy. Nimoy died in 2015.

“When he finished filming the original Star Trek series in 1969, my father brought home a small memento to commemorate his three years of dedicated work on the original series — a pair of Spock’s Vulcan ears,” said Leonard Nimoy's son, Adam Nimoy, in a press release. "Mounted in a black box, those ears have been in our family for over fifty years as a tribute to Dad’s outstanding performances as Mr. Spock and the inspiration and hope that Star Trek have given to generations of fans all over this planet."

Courtesy of Adam Nimoy, via Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

The Vulcan ears will be on display in the fall of 2022 in the museum’s upcoming Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery.

Other Star Trek items in the collection include a studio model of the starship Enterprise, as well as another pair of ear tips—this pair was made by a Star Trek superfan and worn at conventions.

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