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 7A

Success

1 day, 12 hours ago

Yaogan 46

201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Classified Earth observation satellite officially reported as for "national resources/hydrology/meteorology surveying & disaster management" purposes.

LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Success

2 days, 4 hours ago

CMS-03 (GSAT-7R)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Communications Satellite for the Indian Navy, replacing GSAT-7 for secure real-time links between Indian warships, submarines, aircraft, and shore-ba…

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 11 hours ago

Bandwagon 4 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

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

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

Falcon 9

Success

3 days, 19 hours ago

Starlink Group 11-23

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

A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 2

Success

4 days ago

Shenzhou 21

Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Tenth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.