Amanda Nguyen

American - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: Oct. 10, 1991
Age: 34

Amanda Ngoc Nguyễn is a social entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and the chief executive officer and founder of Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organization. Nguyen drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, a bill that passed unanimously through the United States Congress.

Spaceflight Record

Amanda Nguyen flew on one previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-31

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

Suborbital NS-5 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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CEO: Jeff Bezos

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

Recent Launches

Long March 4C

Success

15 hours, 16 minutes ago

Daqi-2 (AEMS)

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Daqi-2 (DQ-2), also known as the Atmospheric Environment Monitoring Satellite/AEMS, is the second of follow-on series of Chinese satellites to the GF…

Soyuz 2.1b/Volga

Success

20 hours, 9 minutes ago

Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Unknown satellite(s) for the Russian military.

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 14 hours ago

Starlink Group 17-27

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9

Success

3 days, 9 hours ago

Starlink Group 10-24

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Kinetica 1

Success

3 days, 15 hours ago

8 x Jilin-1

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

8 Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation: * High Resolution-07A 02-04 * High Resoluti…