Haley Arsenax, a 29-year-old physician’s assistant and former bone cancer patient, will become the youngest American in space later this year when she embarks on her first SpaceX private flight.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where arsenic was once a patient and now works, announced Monday that it will blast entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and two competition winners later this year.
Arsenox will be the first person to have an artificial limb in space. When she was 10, she underwent surgery at St. Jude to have a knee replacement and a titanium rod in her left thigh. He is still lame and has pain in his legs but has been cleared for a flight by SpaceX. He will serve as the medical officer of the crew.
“My battle with cancer really prepared me for space travel,” said Arsenox. “It made me difficult, and then I think it really taught me to anticipate the unexpected and move on to the ride.”
She wants to show her young patients and other cancer survivors that “the sky is no limit.”
“It would make a lot of sense for these kids to see a survivor in space,” he said.
Isaacman announced his space mission on February 1, promising to raise 200 200 million for St. Jude, half his own contribution. As the self-appointed commander of the flight, he offered St. Jude one of four SpaceX Dragon Capsule seats.
Without warning staff, St. Jude chose arsenox from hospital and fundraising staff who were patients at one time and could represent the next pay generation, said Rick Shadyak, president of St. Jude’s fundraising organization.
While at home in Arsenox Memphis, she received a “blue out” call in January asking if she represented St. Jude in space. His immediate response was: “Yes! Yes! Please! ”
But first she wanted to run behind her mother in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Next she reached out to her brother and sister-in-law, both aerospace engineers in Huntville, Alabama, who said, “How safe it is for me to travel to a safe place.”
A lifelong space admirer, Arsenics insists that those who recognize her will not be surprised by her new role. She has sunk on a bungee swing in New Zealand and has come to Morocco. And he prefers the roller coaster. Isaacman, who flies fighter jets for a hobby, considers it perfectly suitable.
“It’s going to inspire people to become an astronaut someday, which is definitely nice,” Isa said. It is also thought to be about the inspiring message of what we can achieve on earth. “
It has two more crew members to choose from and plans to announce them in March. One sweepstakes will be the winner; Anyone who donates to St. Jude this month is eligible. So far, more than 9 9 million has come in, according to Shady Dick. The second meeting will go to the business owner who will use the credit card-processing company Shift 4 Payments, Isaacmans Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The lift-off fun is targeted at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center around October, with the capsule two to four days around Earth. Isaacman does not put in the plane how much the flight will cost.
