In her memoir “Saving Five” Nguyen chronicles her experience rebuilding her life after an attack while she was a student at ...

Activist Amanda Nguyen has become an astronaut. On April 14, she'll be flying to space in an all-female mission alongside ...

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with ...

“Accidental activist” is how Amanda Nguyen describes herself. She didn’t set out to testify in front of Congress or start a nonprofit. No, her childhood dream was to fly among the stars as an ...

I wanted to honor the person I was before I was hurt.” Courtesy Amanda Nguyen during her astronaut training That meant returning to her work in the sciences. This month, the 33-year-old will fly ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen on her new book, Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope, ...

A warning, this conversation covers the topic of sexual assault. At the age of 33, Amanda Nguyen has a string of accolades that most people will never collect over the course of their entire lives ...