As a child, she beat bone cancer. Now she's headed into space. | WSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM
By Arlene Eiras (Reuters) - Bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux is thrilled to be going into space. As a crew member on SpaceX's Inspiration4, the world's first all-commercial astronaut mission to Earth's orbit, Arceneaux hopes that as the first person to go into space with a prosthesis, she can inspire others. "This mission is opening up space travel to anyone and I think that in itself is going to motivate people and give them so much hope," said the vivacious 29-year-old. At 10, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, and was treated at St. Jude Children's Researc...
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