Kristen Stewart to Play Astronaut Sally Ride in Amazon Limited Series ‘The Challenger’

Sister is Bear Ride. Not joking.

Ride, Sally Ride

She's like the last gasp of major historical characters before the timeline diverges too far and she rocks lol

Yeah, that character was a nice tribute.. the gun did surprise me, though, not going to lie. 😅

yesss

Have you ever seen Love Lies Bleeding?

I feel she gets a bad rap for Twilight. No amount of great acting could save that movie. They could have had an all-star cast, and Twilight would still just be meh at best.

She was absolutely amazing in Underwater

Nobody in Twilight particularly shines. They all got a pass from me on that one. It’s like someone who goes to culinary school and ends up working at Taco Bell. The tacos are going to taste the same no matter who is making them.

The best one was Crimes of the Future

She was also great in Adventureland.

I loved her performance in Crimes of the Future.

Not a fan at all and have always had a biased opinion because I could not stand the Twilight movies that I saw; I think it was 1-3. That said, Underwater was a surprisingly good movie and she did a great job in it.

Never watched Twilight so I’ve only seen her in her other films and I think she is a superb actress. Love Lies Bleeding was the most recent performance I’ve seen of hers and she was stellar.

I did enjoy Equals.

Yeah, both her and Pattinson are very talented and a pleasure.

I was surprised by how good her [commercial work](https://youtu.be/A4kpVO56OBU?si=8plVulfWEbBjUPFq) was

She was amazing in Spencer

I agree I think her career might be about to blow up.

She’s incredible in Clouds of Sils Maria

Kristen Stewart is a phenomenal actor and activist, and a personal favorite. I am a huge twilight fan, of course, but she has done some top notch acting throughout her career. Besides the ones you mentioned, she’s also amazing in (as mentioned by Hotter_Noodle) love lies bleeding. But also personal shopper (art style psychological drama), Still Alice( Julianne Moore is mom with early onset Alzheimer’s), the runaways (with Dakota fanning as the band), Adventureland, Speak ( she was very young and it’s based off the book about the young teen who got raped), panic room (with Jodie foster) Some ones where she is more of a minor character: into the wild, zathura ( THIS was a favorite when it was out, it’s like jumanji in space with young JOSH HUTCHERSON starring as a young boy).

Shes a legit good actress. She was great in her little role in ‚into the wild‘ and everything ive Seen her in since. Its ridiculous that people measure her by a role in some teenangst IP thats written like oxigen deprivation was a key factor in its inception.

The twist is big bird flies up to save the motherfucking day.

That turns into a wild montage of an alternate history where we somehow leap forward technologically because it didn’t explode and we’re in flying cars and making contact with aliens and all sorts

The Bugonia the ending. 🥰

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Wait, what was the twist ending? Or are you thinking of Once Upon A Time in Hollywood?

sally ride was on the commission that investigated the challenger disaster, and was later confirmed to have been the one to identify the o-ring as the point of failure, but passed the information on to others on the panel instead of presenting it herself to avoid retribution from NASA

She died of pancreatic cancer

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy and was about to Google it. Now I might actually watch it knowing it isn’t ending on an extreme down note.

Sally ride is such a badass name for an astronaut

She died of old age at 61.

Then they should probably choose a different name for this movie.

Does that mean my assumption that it was based on the Challenger shuttle is wrong? Because yeah, if this is actually unrelated fiction it's a really stupid title. But Sally Ride did ride the Challenger... so what else would it be about?

Natalie Portman already did that, actually. I heard it wasn’t very good.

I was waiting for this comment, all everyone remembers is this diaper lmao

🎶 They also tied the tampons together by their strings like sausages🎶

For a 7-day mission! They also designed a makeup kit for her, although that ultimately didn't make it onboard. https://www.vogue.com/article/nasa-engineers-space-makeup-kits-female-astronauts-sally-ride

She was involved a lot in the Astronaut class of 77 and then also on the investigative comission. All of those 1977 astronauts and the story of the early shuttle program are pretty integral to Challenger. A ton of interesting characters in that group. Hope Judy Resnick gets a good depiction too.

Heavy metal, suicide

Wasn’t Columbia on a Saturday? I remember because I was at a science fair that day.

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Perhaps the most surprisingly intense onscreen chemistry I've ever seen.

ChaoticSenior YES!!! that Totinos skit with Bayer is one of the funniest things ever! "What's your name?" "I never had one". LOL

Well, Sally's shuttle was called The Challenger but I suppose the more infamous shuttle frequently overshadows that fact....

The series is about the Challenger disaster, and focuses on an astronaut who flew two missions aboard the Challenger and later served on the commission investigating the Challenger disaster. So, all things considered, it seems pretty apt.

It's doing both the Challenger story and Sally Ride's story, since she served on the Commission that investigated it >“‘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. As the members of the 1986 Rogers Commission interrogate the complex inner workings of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to find what, or who, was responsible for the Challenger’s doomed fate, the show explores Commission member Sally Ride’s (Stewart) personal journey. We follow Sally, and the rest of the diverse Astronaut Class of ’78, through the ranks of the shuttle program, through initial recruitment and training, professional and personal highs and lows, until Sally’s historic glass ceiling moment as she becomes the first American woman in space.”

It is “‘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. As the members of the 1986 Rogers Commission interrogate the complex inner workings of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to find what, or who, was responsible for the Challenger’s doomed fate, the show explores Commission member Sally Ride’s (Stewart) personal journey. We follow Sally, and the rest of the diverse Astronaut Class of ’78, through the ranks of the shuttle program, through initial recruitment and training, professional and personal highs and lows, until Sally’s historic glass ceiling moment as she becomes the first American woman in space.”

Already been done, Natalie Portman's *Lucy In the Sky*.

Are we in 2014? I've heard that "joke" before.

I’m in suspense. Maybe the story will have an explosive climax ??

Dumbledore was a ghost the whole time

Yes, but not on the tenth (and final) mission that it flew.