June Lockhart is primarily known as a 1950s and 1960 TV
actress, best remembered as the mother in two television
series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also played Dr. Janet
Craig on the CBS-TV sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968-1970).

Mariette Hartley portraying Zarabeth in the third season Star Trek
episode “All Our Yesterdays” (Mar. 1969)

Mariiette Hartley began her career in her teens as a stage actress. Her
film  career began with the western Ride the High Country (1962),

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.

Released by Universal Pictures, E.T. was a blockbuster, surpassing Star
Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for
ten years.

Director Steven Spielberg with E, T.

 
July 21, 1969

Astronaut footprint on the Moon’s surface