Jude chose Arceneaux from among the “scores†of hospital and fundraising employees who had once been patients and could represent the next generation, said Rick Shadyac, president of St.
Jude in space!
(Her father died of kidney cancer in 2018.) Next she reached out to her brother and sister-in-law, both of them aerospace engineers in Huntsville, Alabama, who “reassured me how safe space travel is.â€.
A lifelong space fan who embraces adventure, Arceneaux insists those who know her won’t be surprised.Liftoff is targeted around October at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, with the capsule orbiting Earth two to four days