Anil Menon 🛰️
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Anil Menon is a US Air Force lieutenant colonel from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organization to support the human system during future missions. Prior to that, he served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station. Menon is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine. As a physician, he was a first responder during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident. In the Air Force, Menon supported the 45th Space Wing as a flight surgeon and the 173rd Fighter Wing, where he logged over 100 sorties in the F-15 fighter jet and transported over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team. Exact date of birth unknown.
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Um die bei der EVA-97 demontierte Bodenfunkantenne zu ersetzen führen morgen Dienstag, den 25. August 2026 Sophie Adenot und Anil Menon einen weiteren Außenboardeinsatz durch. Für die französische ESA Astronautin Sophie Adenot ist dies ihre zweite EVA. Die ESA übertägt die EVA ab 13 Uhr MESZ auf ESA WebTV und ihrem Youtubekanal. Der Beitrag 24. 8. 2026 – Morgen erfolgt der zweite Außenboardeinsatz
Nach 6 Stunden und 23 Minuten endete heute die EVA des NASA-Astronauts Anil Menon und der ESA-Astronautin Sophie Adenot. Eine ausgefallene Antenne wurde dabei demontiert und am Truss der ISS zwischengelagert. Mittels einer weiteren EVA wir eine Ersatzantenne montiert werden. Der Beitrag 18. 8. 2026 – 97. US-Außenbordeinsatz an der ISS erschien zuerst auf Raumfahrer.net .
Die US-Astronauten Jessica Meir und Anil Menon haben den 96. US-Außenbordeinsatz an der ISS erfolgreich beendet. Bei dem gut sechseinhalb Stunden dauernden Einsatz wurde der Power Channel 3B für die Installation eines ausrollbaren Solarpanels (iROSA) vorbereitet. Der Beitrag 7. 8. 2026 – Zwei US-Astronauten beenden Außenbordeinsatz an der ISS erschien zuerst auf Raumfahrer.net .
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon successfully completed US EVA-98 at 20:57 CEST on Tuesday 25 August. It was Sophie’s second spacewalk, and the 32nd conducted by a European astronaut.
From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2026. The pair will finish installing a high-speed […]
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot will take part in her first-ever spacewalk during U.S. Spacewalk 97. Together with NASA astronaut Anil Menon, she will replace a Space-to-Ground antenna on the International Space Station, a critical communications system that enables high-speed data and voice links between Mission Control in Houston and the space station.
From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome […]
NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon and her children watch as a Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio lifted off for the Soyuz MS-29 mission at 7:47 p.m. local […]
Russia launched a new crew to the International Space Station today, Soyuz MS-29. Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, and NASA astronaut Anil Menon, docked at the ISS about […]
NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]
NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the Expedition […]
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the Expedition 74 crew advancing scientific research. Menon, Dubrov, and Kikina will lift off at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. Baikonur time) […]