SpaceX declared that the assistant physician Hayley Arceneaux of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will participate in the first national space journey. As one of the members of the Inspiration4 mission, she will take off in the Dragon spacecraft and orbit the earth for 5 days.
29-year-old Hailee Arceino became a doctor’s assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital a year ago, and 20 years ago, when she was young, she overcame her illness in this hospital, Pediatric cancer.
She also paid a heavy price for this: she had to undergo knee replacement surgery and implanted a titanium rod in the left thigh bone, so Arceno will become the first astronaut to carry a prosthesis into space.
This mission is scheduled for the end of 2021. If everything goes according to plan, the 29-year-old Arceneaux may become the youngest American to enter space. The title of the youngest astronaut still belongs to Gellman Titov, the Russian astronaut who was only 25 years old when he orbited the earth.
There are four seats for this astronaut selection, representing “leadership, hope, generosity, and prosperity”. Arceno occupies the second ‘hope’ seat. The first seat ‘leader’ belongs to 38-year-old technology entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who is also the commander of the space flight.
He purchased the right to use the ‘Dragon’ spacecraft from SpaceX and will donate the other three astronaut seats to ordinary citizens, with the purpose of raising $200 million in charitable donations for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As of press time, the other two seats have not yet decided on the astronaut candidates.
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