Amblins Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey are also exec producers.
They are also executive producers.
Ride was the first woman and the first member of the LGBTQ+ community to fly into space.
Kristen Stewart and Sally RideEmily Soto; Getty Images
Also in that program was the first Black and Asian American astronauts, and a married couple.
They were also quite brilliant.
Ride died from cancer at age 61 in 2012, a true American hero.
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The hope will be to get this ready to time the series in proximity of the Challenger disaster anniversary.
That happened 38 years ago, on January 28, 1986.
She wrote the book and it went on the bestseller lists, Sedgwick told Deadline.
We wanted so much to tell this story as a limited series.
Our goal at Big Swing is to tell familiar stories with a new perspective and point of view.
I had a relationship with Maggie Cohn, and she fell in love with the book.
Getting Kristen and Maggie was incredible, for a company nobody really knows yet.
We are three girls with a dream.
Making Stewart the centerpiece was also interesting in that TV was not an obsession for her.
Who better to play Sally Ride than one of the great actors of her generation?
As they say in Hollywood, passion wins the day.
Her passion for being an executive producer is vast.
We were all in it to win it.
