SpaceX Company recently announced Hayley Arceneaux, 29, an assistant physician at St. Children’s Research Hospital. Jude (USA), will launch into space later this year.
According to the New York Times, the theft is covered by 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman. He bought a SpaceX flight but didn’t want the trip to be just “fun for the super rich,” so he found three other passionate and inspiring people to fly with.
The first performance was given to Hayley Arceneaux, assistant physician who cares for children with cancer at St. Children’s Research Hospital. Jude (United States).
According to billionaire Isaacman, Arceneaux is the embodiment of human hope. At the age of 10, Arceneaux was diagnosed with cancer. Over the years, she underwent various treatments and suffered from a lot of physical pain.
Eventually, doctors replaced some of Arceneaux’s left leg bones with titanium, helping him sustain life and function like a normal person until now.
After recovering, Arceneaux worked for St. Hospital. Jude – where she was treated, to help the kids being treated for lymphoma and leukemia here.
Arceneaux and his companions will enter space using the SpaceX Falcon 9, which is scheduled to take off later this year. This is part of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission where the four participants are not professional astronauts.
If all goes according to plan, Arceneaux could be the youngest American to enter space at the age of 29. In addition, Arceneaux also becomes the first person to have “fake” body parts in space.
Unlike missions carried out by SpaceX for NASA, the mission would not land at the International Space Station (ISS), but around Earth for three or four days before returning off the coast of Florida.
Dr Michael D. Neel – an orthopedic surgeon who outfitted Arceneaux’s prosthetic legs – commented that Arceneaux can go into space, which means the sky is not limited to anyone.
“It’s the sky and more. Arceneaux shows that I can do anything like normal people,” Neel said.
With Arceneaux, she hopes the next flight will inspire more children who are battling cancer.
“They will see a cancer survivor in space, someone who has been through the same things they are going through. From there they will have more hope for their future,” she said.
Billionaire Isaacman said Arceneaux was mentally adventurous. “And now that she’s traveling to the stars, it’s awesome,” Isaacman said.
There are still two slots left on the year-end flight. Participants are carefully selected by SpaceX and Isaacman according to several criteria and will be announced shortly.
