St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States, and billionaire Jared Isacman, have announced that nurse Hailee Arsinoe has been chosen to take part in the first civilian trip to space.

In a report published by the American newspaper "Nytimes", writer Kenneth Zhang says that Haley, 29, was hoping to fulfill her dream in 2021 to visit the seven continents of the world before reaching the age of 30, but she chose her as part of the "SpaceX" trip. Instead, he would make her travel to space.

Hayley Arsino, a nurse at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and a survivor of pediatric bone cancer (New York Times-American Press)

A unique journey

Arsinoe, a nurse at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, will be one of 4 people who are supposed to travel to space at the end of this year on board a Falcon 9 rocket on a flight from Florida, and this trip will be supervised by "Space" X "is the first manned mission orbiting Earth with no professional astronaut crew members.

The adventure is led by billionaire and young American entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, 38, who announced last January that he had bought the trip from Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

Isaacman said at the time that he wanted the mission to be more than just a short leisure trip for the wealthy, and announced that he had offered two of the four available seats to St. Jude Hospital, one to a random winner in a contest to raise money for the hospital that treats children for free and develops treatments for childhood cancer and other diseases, and the other to an employee Hospital healthcare.

Hospital officials and Jared Isacman revealed that Arsinoe was the person chosen to take part in the trip.

At the age of 10, Arsino fell ill with cancer and suffered from baldness due to chemotherapy. (New York Times - American Press)

The story of Arsinoe

Arsino is expected to become the youngest American to travel to space, and she will also be the first human to travel on a space trip with artificial organs, as she previously underwent treatment for bone cancer at St. Jude Hospital 20 years ago, and replaced metal rods with parts of the bones of her left leg.

According to NASA's strict medical standards, Arsino was unable to travel to space due to these artificial parts, but the entry of the private sector on the spaceflight funding line provided - according to the author - new opportunities that were previously unavailable.

Before the age of ten, Arsino had acquired a black belt in taekwondo, but she was complaining of pain in her leg, so her mother noticed a protruding bump above her left knee, and a pediatrician in St.Francisville told her that it looked like a cancerous tumor.

In 2002, Arsinoe entered St. Jude for the first time, and doctors gave good news to her mother that the cancer had not spread to other parts of her body.

Arsino underwent chemotherapy, had artificial bones placed in her leg, and then underwent physical therapy.

At that young age, although she was bald due to chemotherapy, she helped Arseno raise funds for the hospital.

The following year, Louisiana Public Broadcasting awarded her the 2003 Young Heroes Award.

"When I grow up, I want to be a nurse at St. Jude's Hospital," Arsinoe said at the ceremony. "I want to be a patient counselor to tell them that I was suffering from this disease when I was young, and I'm fine now."

Last year, the hospital administration appointed Arsinoe to take care of children with leukemia and lymphoma.

Until early January, Arsino did not know that she had won a seat on a SpaceX trip (New York Times - American Press)

Preparing for the trip

Until early January, Arsino did not know that she had won a seat on a SpaceX trip, and when hospital officials told her they wanted to talk to her about it, she initially thought "it might be a commercial or she'd be giving a lecture somewhere." ".

After learning of her choice for the trip, Arsino and Isacman visited SpaceX's headquarters in California three times, to meet with engineers and start planning the trip.

And unlike the flights - which SpaceX used to carry out for the benefit of NASA - this flight will not go to the International Space Station, but rather will orbit around Earth for 3 or 4 days before landing off the coast of Florida.

A few weeks will pass before the third person on the trip is recognized, as the Saint Jude competition - which was announced two weeks ago - continues until the end of this month.

The competition has so far raised about $ 9.5 million, which is much less than the $ 100 million Isakman promised to provide the hospital from the competition.

The fourth seat on SpaceX's journey will be the winner of a competition sponsored by Shift4 Payments, a credit company that was founded and managed by Izachman.

The competition is based on designing an online store using Shift 4, and then posting a video clip on Twitter to promote the work.

As of last week, less than 100 people had officially participated in the competition.