Scientist and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen has opened up by giving a frank account of how she entered an extensive depression following the historic Blue Origin all-female April spaceflight, which revealed the emotional cost of the hype surrounding the successful mission and the backlash that followed it.
Blue Origin conducted its inaugural space flight in April with prominent women like Katy Perry; journalist Gayle King; philanthropist and wife of Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez; filmmaker Kerianne Flynn; aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe; and Nguyen, a bioastronautics researcher born in Vietnam from refugee survivors, and was making a historic milestone as the first Vietnamese woman in space, a feat that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the US-Vietnam war.
