CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A prop vehicle that was used in the original "Star Trek" TV
series in the late 1960s and acquired by an Ohio collector has sold at auction for
just over $70,000 after a last-minute bidding war.

The Repository in Canton reports an Akron-area collector had been storing the
partially restored 24-foot-long Galileo shuttlecraft for several years before putting
it up for auction online.

Auctioneer Brooks Ames says the selling price soared during the final 90 seconds
of the auction on Thursday as three late bidders fought to claim the structure used
as the shuttlecraft of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Ames says he believes the buyer plans to restore the fake shuttlecraft and possibly display it in a museum.

William Shatner (L) and Leonard Nimoy (R) on the Star Trek set with the
Galileo shuttlecraft

Sally Kristen Ride is a physicist who joined NASA in 1978 and became the 
first American woman, then the youngest at 32, to enter space. She left 
NASA in 1987 to work at Stanford University’s Center for International
Security and Arms Control. In 1989, she became a professor of physics
at the University of  California, San Diego and Director of the California
Space Institute.   

Sally Ride turned 61 on May 26.

Charles Lindbergh, who became the first pilot to complete a nonstop solo flight
across the Atlantic to Paris, is honored with a ticker-tape parade down Broadway
in New York City to celebrate the achievement. Four million people lined the
streets that day.

Time’s first man of the year issue, Jan. 2, 1928

Amelia Earhart mysteriously vanished while flying over the Pacific Ocean 
on July 2, 1937 attempting a record flight around the world at the equator. 

Glass fragments make up a nearly complete jar identical to the style used
by Dr. C. H Berry’s Freckle Ointment (right).

(Discovery News) A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that
the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the
southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.

Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island
by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR),
which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years
ago.

When reassembled,‭ the glass fragments ‬make up a nearly complete jar identical
in shape to the ones used by Dr.‭ ‬C.‭ ‬H Berry’s Freckle Ointment. The ointment was marketed in the early‭ ‬20th century as a concoction guaranteed to make freckles
fade.

"It’s well documented Amelia had freckles and disliked having them," Joe Cerniglia,
the TIGHAR researcher who spotted the freckle ointment as a possible match, told Discovery News.

Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis before take off

The Spirit of St. Louis, flown solo by Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt
Airfield, Garden City, New York on Friday, May 20, 1927 and landed 33 hours, 
and 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France on May 21, a
distance of approximately 3,600 miles, thus completing the first non-stop
flight from New York to Paris. 

A short clip of the actual take off of the Spirit of St. Louis

Spirit of St. Louis arriving at Le Bourget Airport in Paris

Today the Spirit is on display at the National Air and Space Museum