{"id":2350159,"date":"2026-03-29T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2350159"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:06:24","slug":"kristen-stewart-will-play-sally-ride-the-1st-american-woman-in-space-as-amazon-finally-greenlights-mini-series-the-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kristen-stewart-will-play-sally-ride-the-1st-american-woman-in-space-as-amazon-finally-greenlights-mini-series-the-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Stewart will play Sally Ride, the 1st American woman in space, as Amazon finally greenlights mini-series ‘The Challenger’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The space-based projects just keep on launching! Kristen Stewart will be buckling up for a simulated voyage into space for her upcoming Prime Video limited series playing Sally Ride<\/strong><\/u><\/a>, America\u2019s first woman in orbit and a pivotal figure in the government’s Challenger Disaster<\/strong><\/u><\/a> investigation.<\/p>\n

The series was first revealed in 2024<\/strong><\/u><\/a>, but it’s taken nearly two years for Amazon to officially greenlight the project. Created by series showrunner\/executive producer Maggie Cohn (“The Staircase,” “American Crime Story”) and directed by James Hawes (“Slow Horses,” “Black Mirror”), “The Challenger” is adapted from Meredith E. Bagby’s “The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel.”<\/p>\n

Stewart is mostly known for her role in “The Twilight Saga” and its sparkly vampires, but her eclectic body of work includes gems like the spooky thriller “Personal Shopper” and the deeply underrated sci-fi flick, “Underwater.” Now she’ll be zipping up a spacesuit, playing a true American icon and NASA legend.<\/p>\n

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The 2023 book that this series is based on centered around NASA’s barrier-busting 1978 class of astronauts, which included <\/a>Sally Ride. “‘The Challenger’ tells the gripping story of one of the most defining moments in space history, both the unprecedented events leading up to the tragedy, and the shocking investigation that followed,” states the official Prime Video description.<\/p>\n

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