Jan 24, 2025 · A civil rights trailblazer and daughter of Vietnamese boat refugees, Amanda Nguyen will be the first Southeast Asian woman astronaut — and her upcoming mission carries profound significance.

22 hours ago · “Never, never, never give up,” astronaut Amanda Nguyen told AsAmNews when asked what advice she would give to women pursuing careers in male-dominated fields. After discovering her rape kit was set to be destroyed, she put her spaceflight dreams on hold, trading “her telescope for a pen” to draft laws protecting survivors.

Amanda Nguyen is an activist and astronaut. She will become the first Vietnamese woman to go to space when she flies on an upcoming Blue Origin launch on the New Shepard rocket. Amanda's activism focuses on the intersection of race and gender.

32-year-old Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist, is set to fly to space on a Blue Origin New Shepard, becoming the first Vietnamese woman in the world to achieve the milestone. In a video...

6 days ago · Civil rights activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen is set to become the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman to travel to space on a historic Blue Origin flight this spring. She also just ...

Mar 3, 2025 · She is a rape survivor, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and now astronaut. Amanda Nguyen will be part of a historic all-female crew expected to lift off to space this spring. Journalist Gayle King and ...

Apr 29, 2024 · More than a decade ago, Nguyen postponed her dream of becoming an astronaut after experiencing sexual assault during her senior year at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

Apr 6, 2024 · Nguyen, 32 years old and a Southern California native, is set to be the first woman of Vietnamese descent in space. It’s a lifelong dream of hers — traveling to space, becoming an astronaut —...

Feb 27, 2025 · AMANDA NGUYEN founded Rise, a non-profit organization that works to protect the civil rights of sexual-assault and rape survivors. Here, Nguyen addresses herself in the future, and writes about paving her own path of activism, her mission to become an astronaut, and why her work will never be done

Sep 9, 2024 · As the first Vietnamese woman set to go to space, activist Amanda Nguyen discusses how radical empathy sustains her activism in this Q&A.