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Baton Rouge native Hayley Arceneaux is set to head to space tonight, and you can watch it live.

If you happened to look up at the sky this past Memorial Day weekend, you may be wondering what those strange lights zipping around were.

The launch is planned for 3:13 am on March 11, 2021 (2.13 Central), and can be viewed live by clicking the Youtube link in the story.

Hayley Arceneaux is a survivor of childhood cancer thanks to the miracles of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and now thanks to the folks at SpaceX she's been chosen for the upcoming all-civilian Inspiration4 mission into outer space.

A test flight for SpaceX ended in an explosion of flames as the "Starship" capsule attempted to land in South Texas. The company and CEO Elon Musk hoped that this mission would be a big step forward in future crewed outer space missions.

Watch as SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking in this time-lapsed video.

Keep your eyes on the sky this evening for a chance to view the International Space Station. According to our guy Rob Perillo over at KATC-TV3, you may also be able to see the SpaceX crew delivering some astronauts to the ISS.

Space.com will show a live feed from the launch pad this Saturday, November 14th at 7:49 PM EST.

The site shows a schedule of when satellites will be visible to the naked eye in your area and also tells you which satellites they are by name.

There will be 17 satellites visible to the naked eye tonight, weather permitting (and it appears that the weather will permit!).

In the "old days", stages from rockets, once separated, would either burn up falling through the atmosphere, or they would fall into the ocean

We could find no reports of injuries, except maybe to the pride of some of those engineers.