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Anil Menon

Portrait photograph of Anil Menon

Photo: Robert Markowitz / Public domain

Anil Menon is a colonel in the United States Space Force, an emergency medicine physician and a NASA astronaut. Before NASA selected him as an astronaut candidate in December 2021, he was a NASA flight surgeon, supporting long-duration crews on the International Space Station, and then the first flight surgeon at SpaceX, where he was present for Crew Dragon missions from Demo-2 through Inspiration4. He is an associate professor at McGovern Medical School. His first spaceflight, Soyuz MS-29 in 2026, took him to the station as part of Expedition 74 and Expedition 75.

Born
15 October 1976
Country
United States
Flights
1: Soyuz MS-29 (2026)
Stations visited
International Space Station, as part of Expedition 74, Expedition 75

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

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  1. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    NASA

  2. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    NASA

  3. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    NASA

  4. Crew-12 Hatch Closure: Dragon Freedom Readies to Leave the ISS

    European Space Agency, ESA

  5. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    NASA

  6. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    NASA
Play video: US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

NASA

Duration 9:08:26

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  1. Crew-12 Hatch Closure: Dragon Freedom Readies to Leave the ISS

    Launch coverageEuropean Space Agency, ESA · 36:55

    Mission: Crew-12

  2. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    Launch coverageNASA · 9:05:30

    Mission: Expedition 75

  3. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    Mission explainerNASA · 8:57:39

    Mission: U.S. Spacewalk 97

  4. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    Launch coverageNASA · 8:48:15

    Mission: US Spacewalk 98

  5. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    Press briefingNASA · 28:10

    Mission: ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101

  6. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    Launch coverageNASA · 9:08:26

    Mission: US Spacewalk 100

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