(VOVWORLD) -Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, organized a flight of New Shepard, a fully reusable, suborbital rocket system, with a crew of six women in West Texas, the US, on April 14 (local time).
 Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Dung hands over the President's letter to Amanda Nguyen. Photo: Chu An |
The selected group of astronauts are outstanding women in many fields, including Amanda Nguyen, founder and general director of the non-governmental organization RISE. The New Shepard's journey was a great success, reaching an altitude of 100 km in space and returning safely. After the flight, Amanda Nguyen marked herself as the first woman of Vietnamese origin to fly into space.
Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dung attended the New Shepard mission and presented a letter from President Luong Cuong to Amanda Nguyen.
In the letter, the President expressed his joy and pride that for the first time a woman of Vietnamese origin had flown into space, affirming the talent and intelligence of Vietnamese people in the US and around the world.
The President also highly appreciated the cooperation between Amanda Nguyen and the Vietnam National Space Centre (VNSC), helping to promote the cooperative relationship between the US and Vietnam.