hailey arceneaux, a pediatric cancer survivor, also a current physician s assistant. to go on this trip, she knew nothing about space. never even thought about going into orbit. and now here she is, there s also scion procter, a geology professor, a painter, a poet. she applied to be an astronaut back in 2009. didn t quite make the cut. she was devastated. now she got to achieve her lifelong dream. and then there s kristin broski, an engineer, he was watching the super bowl last year and saw a commercial for inspiration 4. he entered a raffle. his friend got the golden ticket but couldn t go, so gave it to him. that s how this kind of hodgepodge crew ended up together. and by doing something like that, a raffle, an online contest, it entered into the equation a big element of risk. i mean, what if this crew didn t get along? but it turns out, after about five and a half, six months of training, they became very close. they climbed mt. rainier together, did so many simulators together,