Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hayley Arceneaux, cancer survivor and Inspiration 4 astronaut, has some advice for future space-goers: Don't bring Pop-Tarts!
Hayley Arceneaux is a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a career she committed to at age ten, after surviving pediatric bone cancer. She served as an ambassador for the hospital when she joined the first all-civilian orbital space mission, Inspiration 4, in September 2021, and spent three days in orbit. At age 29 she became the youngest American in space, the first pediatric cancer survivor, and the first astronaut with a prosthetic body part.
To learn more about Hayley Arceneaux, visit hayleyarceneaux.com.
To purchase Hayley's books visit shop.cosmo.org.
Discover more about the Cosmosphere at http://www.cosmo.org.
Hayley Arceneaux, cancer survivor and Inspiration 4 astronaut, has some advice for future space-goers: Don't bring Pop-Tarts!
Hayley Arceneaux is a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a career she committed to at age ten, after surviving pediatric bone cancer. She served as an ambassador for the hospital when she joined the first all-civilian orbital space mission, Inspiration 4, in September 2021, and spent three days in orbit. At age 29 she became the youngest American in space, the first pediatric cancer survivor, and the first astronaut with a prosthetic body part.
To learn more about Hayley Arceneaux, visit hayleyarceneaux.com.
To purchase Hayley's books visit shop.cosmo.org.
Discover more about the Cosmosphere at http://www.cosmo.org.
