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'The Sky's Not Even The Limit': Cancer Survivor To Become Youngest American In Space

Physician's assistant and pediatric bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux, 29, will be one of four crew members on the world's first all-civilian mission to space at the end of this year.

Hayley Arceneaux, 29, became a physician's assistant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital nearly a year ago, almost two decades after beating pediatric cancer there herself. Now, she's set to reach new heights as the youngest American — and first with a prosthesis — to travel to space.

St. Jude on Monday that Arceneaux will be one of four crew members on the world's first all-civilian mission to space, which is called and is tentatively set to take off

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