Hayley Arceneaux Biography – Hayley Arceneaux Wiki
Hayley Arceneaux is a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital employee, bone cancer survivor, and private astronaut who is now a physician assistant; she joined billionaire Jared Isaacman on SpaceX’s first private spaceflight Inspiration4 launched on September 15, 2021. At age 29, in 2021, Arceneaux became the youngest American in space.
She was assigned to be the crew’s chief medical officer. She has stated she thinks she will be the first Cajun in space. Arceneaux will be the first person to launch with a prosthesis. As part of the training, she climbed Mount Rainier in Washington together with the rest of the Inspiration4 crew. She received the call sign “Nova” during training. She is featured on the cover of a Time magazine double issue with the rest of the crew of Inspiration4 in August 2021.
She has an award with the 2003 Louisiana Young Heroes. She graduated from St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and obtained an undergraduate degree in Spanish in 2014. She obtained her Physician Assistant (PA) degree in 2016 from LSU Health in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Hayley Arceneaux Age
She was born on December 4, 1991, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
Hayley Arceneaux Parents
She is the daughter of Howard Arceneaux her father and her mother Colleen Arceneaux.
Hayley Arceneaux Husband
Currently, she is not married.
Hayley Arceneaux Family
Her brother Hayden and her sister-in-law Liz Suttles are aerospace engineers.
Hayley Arceneaux Cancer
She was brought up in St. Francisville, Louisiana. At the age of 10, one of her knees started to ache. Her doctor thought it was just a sprain, but a few months later, tests revealed she suffered from osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. Her family turned to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for her treatment and care, which included around a dozen rounds of chemotherapy, a limb-preservation surgery with knee replacement, and placement of a titanium rod in her left thigh bone along with associated physical therapy. She is now finished with treatment and thriving. The experience inspired her to want to work with other cancer patients at St. Jude when she grew up as a physician assistant with leukemia and lymphoma patients.
Hayley Arceneaux Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches tall.
Hayley Arceneaux Instagram
Her Instagram account is @hayleyarc.
