Kristen Stewart will play Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, in a series based on the book The New Guys
Kristen Stewart will play Sally Ride in The Challenger, a limited TV series based on Meredith Bagby’s 2022 book, The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel.Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, was part of the barrier-breaking 1978 NASA space shuttle class — the first not to be composed entirely of white men. The class also included the first Black and Asian American astronauts.
Ride was part of two shuttle missions and was NASA’s first LGBTQIA+ astronaut. She later became the only astronaut on the Rogers Commission, the presidential commission assembled to investigate the 1986 Challenger disaster. 120957836Sally Ride Kyra Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler’s Big Swing Productions developed the series, which will be produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and Stewart’s production company, Nevermind. Maggie Cohn, whose credits include American Crime Story, The Staircase and Narcos: Mexico, will be the writer and showrunner.
“The focus is this newly recruited wild, feral group of astronauts who were all very diverse,” Sedgwick said in a statement to Deadline. “And then on an Oppenheimer track, it also tells the story of the Rogers Commission that investigated the Challenger disaster that Ride took part in. Growing up in Florida, Meredith Bagby was obsessed with space and the shuttle, and she also watched the Challenger explode.
The hope is that the show will be ready to debut around the time of the anniversary of the Challenger disaster, which happened on January 28, 1986. Ride was the one who determined that Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight due to the shuttle’s o-rings becoming stiff in the colder-than-normal Florida temperature.
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