SpaceX, St. Jude’s Hayley Arceneaux ready to launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9, with four private citizens onboard, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Chris O'Meara/AP)
SpaceX plans to blast into orbit Wednesday night with a billionaire, two contest winners and a St. Jude worker who survived childhood cancer. It’s the first chartered passenger flight for Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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