Kristen Stewart will make her TV series starring debut in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to fly in space. She did this as part of a NASA space shuttle astronaut class of 1978 that was the first to be diversified and not comprised of all white men. Kyra Sedgwick’s Big Swing Productions developed and brought the project to Amblin and is Executive Producing with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and Stewart’ through her Nevermind production label.
