Kenneth Chang, The New York Times
Published: 23 Feb 2021 12:55 AM BdST
Updated: 23 Feb 2021 12:55 AM BdST A photo provided by St Jude Children s Research Hospital shows Hayley Arceneaux at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif Arceneaux, a cancer survivor, will be the first person with a prosthetic body part to go to space. (St Jude Children s Research Hospital via The New York Times)
Hayley Arceneaux, 29, had hoped this would be the year that she would complete her aim of visiting all seven continents before she turned 30. );
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She is going to space.
Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, will be one of four people on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Florida. Scheduled to launch late this year, it is to be the first crewed mission to circle Earth in which no one on board is a professional astronaut.
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Water trickles from a fire hydrant while City of Austin Water Utility workers repair a broken water main near 11th and Red River streets in Austin, Texas
Southern US cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have now been forced to trade one crisis for another.
Busted water pipes ruptured by record-low temperatures created shortages of clean drinking water, shut down the Memphis airport on Friday and left hospitals struggling to maintain sanitary conditions.
In Texas, seven million people a quarter of the population of the nation’s second-largest state were under orders to boil tap water before drinking it because low water pressure could have allowed bacteria to seep into the system.
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