While we watch the modern-day achievements of those involved in space exploration, it's important to never forget those who went before.Among those heroes is Sally Ride.Documentary filmmaker Steven Barber has been on a mission to commemorate NASA's heroes like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Then it dawned on him, there wasn't a single monument highlighting NASA's women."In fact, in America, only 2% of the monuments represent any sort of female achievement which is crazy because you guys give us all life, right? I think we can do a little better,” Barber said.Barber quickly raised $300,000 for a sculpture dedicated to Sally Ride. Ride was the first American female astronaut to head into space from the Kennedy Space Center in 1983 and then again in 1984.Barber has been filming everyone involved with Sally's story and the process of her monument coming to life.George Lundeen and his team have been working on the sculpture for the last year."I remember when she went up into space, and I remember the challenges she had both before and afterward with all the things she did,” Lundeen said.Challenges like serving on the investigation team that analyzed the Challenger disaster of 1986 which exploded shortly after liftoff.And in her personal life, she represented a very marginalized group in society. She was gay. Something that was known among NASA's inner circle but didn't surface until after her death.Despite her small stature in real life, the gold and bronze sculpture of Sally will stand at 7-feet tall and will be placed in the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island in New York."My great hope, and I think this will happen, is that now I'm looking into diversity. I've been speaking to May Jenisen, the first Black woman in space. I'm speaking to Guy Blueford. He's given me the rights to build his monument as the first African American in space. It is my great hope that diversity will reign supreme once Sally is up,” Barber said.Sixty-five women have flown in space and 12,000 of them worked for NASA.The sculpture's unveiling will take place June 17.

File video above: Celebrities uplift Vanessa Bryant after eulogizing her late husband and daughterThis week will come with reflections of tragedies and the next phase of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment case. This week will have been one year after a deadly helicopter crash claimed nine lives and 35 years after the space shuttle Challenger explosion claimed seven lives.Here's what to know.Impeachment case moves forwardThe House of Representatives is moving forward on the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump, less than a week after he left office.It involves a single charge of incitement of insurrection for the deadly attack on the Capitol that unfolded on Jan. 6.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will send the article of impeachment late Monday, with senators sworn in as jurors Tuesday. In December 2019, Trump was impeached by the House on two articles: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. House Democrats claimed the president abused power like no other leader in U.S. history when he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, ahead of the 2020 election. The Senate acquitted him on both articles in February.Opening arguments for the second trial, of which no president has ever faced previously, will move to February.1 year passes since Kobe helicopter crashTuesday marks one year since a tragic helicopter crash killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant along with his daughter Gianna and her basketball teammate and six other people.In addition to Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, the crash claimed the lives of Payton Chester, 13; Sarah Chester, 45; Alyssa Altobelli, 14; Keri Altobelli, 46; John Altobelli, 56; Christina Mauser, 38; and the helicopter's pilot, Ara Zobayan, 50.Bryant was posthumously selected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in early 2020, but an enshrinement ceremony for that class is slated for May 13-15.Remembering the Challenger tragedyThursday will mark 35 years after the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, claiming the lives of seven people: Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee and Michael Smith.This year, NASA's annual Day of Remembrance ceremony will be livestreamed on Facebook at 11 a.m. ET due to social distancing precautions, the Kennedy Space Center said.The explosion happened 73 seconds after liftoff.The Associated Press and CNN contributed.