News about Sally Ride

Kristen Stewart will make her TV series debut as astronaut Sally Ride in The Challenger. The actress, 34, who lashed out against Hollywood for what she called its 'phony' support of women directors , will take on the role of Ride, the first American woman to travel to space, per Deadline .

On Nasa's last lunar mission, astronom Gene Cernan paused for one last look at the Moon from the surface before scaling the ladder and closing the hatch. The commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 had a solemn message from space for mankind: "I take Man's last step from the surface, back to home for a few months, but we suspect not too long into the future: "I believe that Man's destiny has forged Man's destiny of tomorrow." Cernan was angry that humans never mustered the political will to return and he was left with the name 'Last Man on the Moon'' until his death aged 82 in 2017.

Since NASA is aiming to bring humans to Mars in the 2030s, the European Space Agency found an all-female crew. The team recreated a ten-day mission with four female astronauts and discovered they needed 3,736 pounds less food, saving more than $158 million.