Blue Origin The first Vietnamese-American woman in space says she faced a “tsunami of harassment” after her historic achievement. Civil rights activist and commercial astronaut Amanda Nguyễn, 34, joined Blue Origin’s all-female mission led by Jeff Bezos’ wife, Lauren Sánchez, and writes that what she believed would be a dream achievement was instead “buried under an avalanche of misogyny.” “When Gayle [King] called to check in on me in the aftermath of the spaceflight, I told her my depression might last for years,” Nguyễn wrote in an Instagram post, describing her conversation with CBS News anchor Gayle King, who joined her on the 11-minute mission in April alongside Sánchez, pop singer Katy Perry, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe. Read more at The Daily Beast.