Hayley Arceneaux is soon to become the first person with a prosthetic body part to enter space. She will be the youngest American to orbit Earth. And she may be the first astronaut to have shopped on Etsy to find some of her personal space gear.
As a member of the Inspiration4 crew, the 29-year-old bone cancer survivor and physician's assistant turned to the online marketplace for handmade goods to buy a miniature model of her space capsule. Arceneaux found the diminutive SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from a seller in southern California...
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 47282 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-15-2021 07:59 PM
Inspiration4 video
Inspiration4 crew members Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski and Sian Proctor describe some of the personal items they are flying in space.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 47282 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-25-2021 10:20 AM
From Sian Proctor (via Twitter):
I've teamed up with Mango Skies Films to release my first short film called "Unpacking Space" — a look into my Inspiration4 mission through the unique things I brought with me to space.
We just submitted it to South by Southwest. Fingers crossed we get accepted!
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 47282 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-31-2021 11:42 AM
Sian Proctor brought a patch collection with her (via Twitter):