The cancer survivor will travel into space

Miami. Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a bone cancer survivor, will be one of four people taking part in the first civilian space flight, a charitable initiative by billionaire Jared Isaacman.

“I am so grateful and honored for this incredible once in a lifetime opportunity.”Arceneaux wrote on his Twitter account once his participation in the Inspiration4 space mission was made public on Monday.

Arceneaux, born in Baton Rouge (Louisiana), will represent the Children’s Research Hospital St. Jude on that mission aboard a SpaceX, a charity in which she was diagnosed and treated for bone cancer in childhood.

“I can’t wait to show the world what cancer survivors can do,” he said after revealing the “secret” of his involvement.

He also asked people to donate money for what is “his favorite cause,” St. Paul’s Hospital. Jude, that is raises $ 200 million for free treatment of children with serious diseases with this space initiative.

The young woman has been a spokesperson and “ambassador” for St. Jude since childhood, works in one of its hospitals in Tennessee and was chosen for this space adventure that Isaacman, the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments will command will probably begin next October at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In addition to Isaacman and Arceneaux, two other unannounced people will travel into space, but it is determined that one will be a St. John’s donor. Jude and another entrepreneur who uses Shift4Shop to “make the business of their dreams come true. True.”

Arceneaux will receive the place “Hope”, and the other two people will be called “Generosity” and “Prosperity”, according to the mission’s website.

According to People magazine, Arceneaux will capture several records from the history of space conquest: “The first American civilian woman, the first person with artificial joints, the first cancer survivor and the first Cajun (descendants of the French pioneers in Louisiana) in space”.

In a statement, the young woman said that “until now astronauts were physically perfect”, but this mission will help change the “idea of ​​what an astronaut should be”, while helping children who fight against a Cancer.

The Dragon spacecraft with participants in the Inspitation4 mission will orbit the Earth for “a few days” and then fall into the Atlantic, where it will be recovered by SpaceX teams, as announced by this space company on February 1.

According to SpaceX, Inspiration4 mission will be “the world’s first fully commercial”.

The Inspiration4 crew will receive commercial training from astronauts from SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and the Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, microgravity operation, zero gravity and other tests.

This is not the first time that 37-year-old Isaacman, trained as a commercial and military pilot, has mixed aviation and solidarity.

In 2008 and 2009 he promoted the Speed-Around-The-World initiative, a series of flights to raise money and to publicize the work of the Make a Wish Foundation.