Bone cancer survivor to participate in first SpaceX private flight

Hayley Arceneaux, 29, will become youngest American in space when she joins Jared Isaacman and two contest winners on flight

Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician's assistant and former bone cancer patient, will become the youngest American in space later this year, when she participates in the first SpaceX private flight.

St Jude Children's Research hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where Arceneaux was once a patient and now works, announced on Monday that she will blast off later this year with the entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and two contest winners.