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Actress Michelle Williams is set to portray Christa McAuliffe, the high school teacher who with her six astronaut crewmates were lost aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. Williams was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the 2005 movie "Brokeback Mountain" and is now co-starring in the comic book film "Venom" opening in theaters on Friday (Oct. 5) … "The Challenger," to be directed by Martin Zandvliet ("Land of Mine"), follows McAuliffe on "the incredible journey she took from her classroom to becoming a member of the space shuttle Challenger crew," describes Argent Pictures. McAuliffe was teaching...

Michelle Williams is set to star as Christa McAuliffe in The Challenger, a feature film about the 1986 space shuttle tragedy being produced by John and Art Linson and Argent Pictures’ Ben Renzo. Land of Mine director Martin Zandvliet will direct the biopic of sorts that is penned by Jayson Rothwell. A May 2019 production start is being eyed. The Challenger will follow the true story of McAuliffe, a New Hampshire high school teacher who was selected to join NASA’s Teacher in Space Project. She eventually became part of the astronaut crew on the Space Shuttle Challenger, which launched from...