Kristen Stewart | Photo credit: Yara Nardi
Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart is set to make her debut in a new series. the Challenger From Amazon MGM Studios. According to reports, Stewart will play astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, who became the first American woman to fly in space. deadline,
Actress Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions developed the project and brought it to Amblin and is executive producing alongside Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and Stewart’s Nevermind Productions label.
the Challenger based on New peopleThe book is written by Meredith E. Bagby, who partners with actors Kyra Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler in The Big Swing. They are also executive producers. The book traces the history of NASA’s class of 1978, which for the first time included women and people of color.
Three years after her first space flight in 1983, things turned tragic when Ride became the only astronaut appointed to the Rogers Commission to investigate the deadly Challenger explosion. She died of cancer in 2012 at age 61.
