Anil Menon, as a flight engineer and member of the expedition 75 crew, is ready to have its first trip to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2026.
He said that Menon should be in June 2026, along with Roscosmos Cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikin, plan to plan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft. After lifting from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the crew spends about eight months aboard the ISS.
During his mission, Menon will perform a demonstration of scientific research and technologies aimed at promoting human space survey and contribute to the well -being of people on Earth.
Who is the astronaut NASA Anil Menon?
Anil Menon was born in the United States in 1976 to Indian and Ukrainian parents, a colonel in the US Air Force, a doctor of emergency medicine. Before he was selected as a candidate for the state, NASA astronaut was a flight surgeon in NASA and the medical director in Space.
He studied at Harvard and Stanford universities. Menon was assigned to 173. The fighter wing for military service and finished staying in Medicine Aerospace at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he wrote the thesis of medical sets designed for commercial space flights.
Menon was awarded a bachelor’s degree in Neurobiology at the University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a medical title at Stanford University in California. He has completed residential training in both emergency medicine and Medicine aerospace at Stanford and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
In his free time, he continues to exercise emergency medicine in Memorial Hermann’s Texas Medical Center and mentor the inhabitants through the University of Texas residential program. Menon was the first flight surgeon SpaceX and played a key role in the first crew spacecraft during the NASA SpaceX Demo-2 mission.
He also helped set up the SpaceX medical infrastructure to support future missions for human space flights. In addition, he worked as a flight surgeon for SpaceX missions and NASA expeditions on board the International Space Station.
After being selected as Astronaut NASA in 2021, Menon graduated with 23. Class in 2024. Once his initial candidate training was completed, he began to train for his debut space mission.
Since 2016, his partner Anna Menon – an engineer about the main space in SpaceX. The duo has two children.
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