Former St. Jude Patient Joins First All-Civilian Mission to Space
Central New York: You recently helped raise over $75,000 for St. Jude Children s Research Hospital, not to mention in the middle of a global pandemic. Over the two days of our annual Country Cares for St. Jude Radiothon, we cried together, smiled together, and reflected together. But most importantly, we felt a sense of hope together, because every dollar donated to St. Jude provides life-saving resources and a sense of relief for families going through the most difficult time.
There are so many success stories that have come out of St. Jude since the hospital first opened its doors more than 50 years ago, and now, one of the hospital s former patients is proving that St. Jude kids can truly do anything they set their minds to.
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Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to space, has announced its second crew member, Hayley Arceneaux of Memphis, TN, a 29-year-old physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® who was treated as a child for bone cancer at St. Jude. Arceneaux joins Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman. She will occupy the mission seat representing Hope.
Hayley Arceneaux, physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric cancer survivor, to fill Hope seat on historic Inspiration4 flight. (Photo: Business Wire)
“It’s an incredible honor to join the Inspiration4 crew. This seat represents the hope that St. Jude gave me and continues to give families from around the world, who, like me, find hope when they walk through the doors of St. Jude,” said Arceneaux. “When I was just 10 years old, St. Jude gave me the opportunity to grow up. Now I am ful
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Now, she ll take her story to the ultimate platform outer space.
Arceneaux has been chosen to be part of the first all-civilian space flight, named Inspiration4.
On the history-making flight, the 29-year-old will set lots of other records: the first American civilian woman in space, the first person with an artificial joint, the first cancer survivor and, she believes, the first Cajun. What an incredible honor this is for me to represent cancer survivors in this way, Arceneaux said. Until now, astronauts have been physically perfect. This mission is changing the mindset of what an astronaut has to look like. Not only is it going to mean so much to the kids to know that all of the people that are donating are helping them but also being able to see a survivor in space.
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BATON ROUGE - A native of Baton Rouge with an impressive story of survival and determination has announced that her next feat is literally out of this world.
Hayley Arceneaux, a bone cancer survivor turned physician assistant at St. Jude s Children s Hospital in Memphis is taking on outer space by becoming the youngest-ever American to fly into space, and probaly the first Cajun to make the trip, with SpaceX.
According to The Advocate, SpaceX recently announced that it would send four civilians into orbit aboard its Crew Dragon capsule, marking the first time that a crew without a single professional astronaut would fly into space.