'Sky is Not the Limit': Cancer Survivor With Prosthetics Becomes the Youngest American to go to Space

Hayley Arceneaux, 29, had hoped this would be the year that she would complete her aim of visiting all seven continents before she turned 30. “I did ask, ‘Am I going to get a passport stamp for going to space?’” Arceneaux said. Unless you’re going to play football up there.” Arceneaux said she hoped to offer inspiration to patients at St. Jude. “It’s going to help them visualize their future.” Richard C. Shadyac Jr., president of ALSAC, the fundraising organization for St. Jude, said of Arceneaux, “If anybody was emblematic of the notion of hope, it was Hayley.” Arceneaux herself did not find out she would have a seat on the rocket until early January. “She’s got an adventurous spirit,” Isaacman said of Arceneaux.