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After beating bone cancer, Hayley Arceneaux figures rocketing into orbit on SpaceX's first private flight should be a piece of cosmic cake.
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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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