Ms. Arceneaux is a pediatric cancer survivor who was treated at St. Jude’s as a child. She is also the first person with a prosthesis to visit space.
Ms. Arceneaux joins three other crew members on the space flight: billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, who chartered the flight; Sian Proctor, PhD, a community college professor from Tempe, Ariz.; and Christopher Sembroksi, a data engineer from Everett, Wash., according to The New York Times.
The crew will spend three days orbiting Earth as part of a mission that aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude, reports National Geographic.
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