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
The spacecraft, named Faith 7, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper completed 22
Earth orbits traveling 593,885 miles in 34 hours, 20 minutes. The mission was to
determine the effects of extended spaceflight on man. The spacecraft and its
pilot were recovered only 36 minutes after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Cooper is assisted in backing out of his spacecraft after splashdown
