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WATCH: NASA Astronaut Anil Menon to Discuss July 14 Soyuz MS-29 Mission to ISS
Menon Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021
NASA astronaut Anil Menon participates in a spacewalk training session at NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas, ahead of his upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/David DeHoyos
Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel.
NASA will host a news conference at 1:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 29, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to preview astronaut Anil Menon’s upcoming mission to the International Space Station.
Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel HERE.
Following the news conference, individual interviews with Menon will begin at 3 p.m.
The Soyuz MS-29 mission, targeted to launch Tuesday, July 14, will carry Menon and his crewmates, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, to the International Space Station for an eight-month stay as part of Expeditions 74/75.
It will be Menon’s first spaceflight.
Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021, Menon graduated with the 23rd astronaut class in 2024.
After completing initial astronaut candidate training, he began preparing for his first space station flight assignment.
Menon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is an emergency medicine physician, mechanical engineer, and lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He also earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a medical degree from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Menon completed his emergency medicine and aerospace medicine residency at Stanford and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, respectively.
Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel.
