MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 9, 2025--
This week, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ® unveiled the custom-fitted spacesuit worn by St. Jude physician assistant and cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and the youngest American to orbit Earth.
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Hayley's spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Hayley with St. Jude patient Faith at the unveiling of Hayley's spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Hayley with her spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Hayley's first look at her spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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Arceneaux, who was treated at St. Jude for bone cancer when she was 10, was the chief medical officer on the all-civilian Inspiration4 crew in 2021. At age 29, she became, among other things, the first childhood cancer survivor and the first person with a prosthetic to go to space, becoming a symbol of hope for children facing childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
The spacesuit was created by SpaceX, taking 220 measurements of Arceneaux and took 8 months to make by hand. The suit is on loan from SpaceX and Inspiration4. Arceneaux was able to show off the suit to her family and share a few moments with patients.
“When I wore the suit on launch day, I held a photo from when I was in treatment. If only 10-year-old me could have seen what was to come,” said Arceneaux at the unveiling. “There was only one thing I wanted to do with my spacesuit: give it to the patients it belongs to. I knew there would be kids walking in the door of St. Jude on their very first day, and I wanted them to look at the suit and know that everything would be okay.”
The other three suits from Inspiration4 are also on display. Mission commander Jared Isaacman’s suit is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Dr. Sian Proctor's suit is at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Christopher Sembroski's suit is at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The Inspiration4 mission raised more than $250 million to help St. Jude advance research and treatment to improve outcomes for children across the world.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80% in the United States, and it won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Support the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on X, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.
Hayley's spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Hayley with St. Jude patient Faith at the unveiling of Hayley's spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Hayley with her spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Hayley's first look at her spacesuit at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market is slipping Thursday after oil prices resumed their climb.
The S&P 500 fell 0.3% and is on track for a fourth drop in five days after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 83 points, or 0.2%, as of 1:01 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% lower.
A halt in the torrid run for stocks benefiting from the artificial-intelligence boom has slowed the U.S. market recently. Not even another better-than-expected profit report from Nvidia was enough to kick it back into gear.
The chip company reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected, while also forecasting revenue for the current quarter that cleared analysts’ estimates. “The buildout of AI factories — the largest infrastructure expansion in human history — is accelerating at extraordinary speed,” CEO Jensen Huang said.
But such performances and such talk have become routine, and Nvidia's stock swiveled between losses and gains before falling 1.4%.
Some analysts said the weakness may have simply been because investors were locking in profits after Nvidia’s stock had soared nearly 70% over the prior year, more than double the S&P 500’s 27% jump. The broad AI industry is also getting criticism for becoming too expensive, as well as too circular as Nvidia has bought ownership stakes in companies that use its own chips that drive Nvidia’s revenue.
Pressure built on Wall Street, meanwhile, as the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil climbed 1.7% to $106.81 and trimmed its loss for the week. Oil prices have been swinging up and down with uncertainty about how long the war with Iran will keep the Strait of Hormuz shut, which is preventing oil tankers from exiting the Persian Gulf to deliver crude.
The higher oil prices pushed Treasury yields upward in the bond market, resuming rises following a slowdown the day before.
Climbing yields have cranked up the pressure on financial markets worldwide. They're slowing economies and weighing on prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments. Besides driving up rates for mortgages, high yields could also curtail companies’ borrowing to build the AI data centers that have been supporting the U.S. economy’s growth recently.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.61% from 4.57% late Wednesday.
It had gotten near 4.63% in the morning, after a report gave the latest signal that the U.S. job market remains in better shape than economists expected. The number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits last week unexpectedly declined in an indication of fewer layoffs.
But yields eased a bit following a mixed preliminary report showing weaker-than-expected growth for business activity among U.S. services businesses and improved growth for U.S. manufacturers. Companies are feeling the effects of accelerating inflation and are seeing subdued growth in their order books, the preliminary data from an S&P Global survey said.
“The damaging economic impact from the war in the Middle East is becoming increasingly evident in the business surveys,” according to Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Inflation is worsening even beyond the high oil prices caused by the Iran war, while U.S. households are showing widespread discouragement about the economy.
Elsewhere on Wall Street, Walmart fell 7.2% following its profit report. The retailer delivered another quarter of impressive revenue but offered up weaker forecasts for upcoming profit than analysts expected.
On the winning side of Wall Street was Ralph Lauren, which jumped 12.2% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in Europe following bigger moves in Asia.
South Korea’s Kospi Kospi soared 8.4% thanks to strength for technology stocks. Samsung Electronics jumped 8.5% after its labor union and management reached an agreement late Wednesday that averted a strike. SK Hynix, a chip company partnering with Nvidia, surged 11.2%.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 jumped 3.1%, while indexes fell 1% in Hong Kong and 2% in Shanghai.
AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.
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