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Kristen Stewart to star as astronaut Sally Ride - the first American woman in space - in TV series debut The Challenger
Kristen Stewart will make her TV series debut as astronaut Sally Ride in The Challenger.
The diverse crew included Ride's classmates Ronald McNair, Judith Resnik and Ellison Onizuka, along with Michael J. Smith, Gregory Jarvis, Francis R. 'Dick' Scobee and school teacher Christa McAuliffe. Part of the series will focus on the 1986 Challenger disaster which claimed the lives of school teacher Christa McAuliffe and astronauts Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Francis R. 'Dick' Scobee Ronald McNair, Michael J. Smith and Ellison Onizuka Kyra Sedgwick developed the series for years with The New Guys author Meredith E Bagby and writer and producer Valerie Stadler through their Big Swing production company (Pictured in New York in May)
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