Indian-origin Anil Menon, US Air Force lieutenant colonel and SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, has been selected by NASA among 10 new astronauts who may someday fly to the Moon. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Menon helped launch SpaceX’s first humans into space during the ‘Demo-2’ mission, piloted by Elon Musk and a therapy to support the human system during future missions. organization built. He also spent a year India As a Rotary Ambassador Scholar to study and support polio vaccination. Prior to this, he served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various missions taking astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Menon is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician, having received fellowship training in forestry and aerospace medicine.
As a physician, he was the first responder during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2015 earthquake in Nepal and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident. In the Air Force, Menon supported the 45th Space Wing and 173rd Fighter Wing as a flight surgeon, where he made over 100 flights in an F-15 fighter jet and over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team. was taken away.
The US space agency announced late Monday the selection of its latest class of astronauts – six men and four women – from more than 12,000 people who applied to the space agency in March 2020. Once they train and become full-fledged astronauts, they will have some exciting space flight opportunities ahead of them, potentially including flights to the Moon someday.
Astronauts are part of the so-called Artemis Generation. The name is a reference to NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to send the first woman and first person of color to the lunar surface in early 2025 (a landing date that is considered incredibly ambitious). NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during the ceremony, “Today, we welcome 10 new explorers — 10 members of the Artemis generation. This was the Apollo generation, and it did so much for so many people. Now it’s the Artemis generation.” “
At Harvard University, Menon studied neurobiology and researched Huntington’s disease. He attended Stanford Medical School, where he majored in engineering and medicine, and worked on coding soft tissue models at the NASA Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, California.
During his aerospace training, he twice deployed with the Critical Care Air Transport Team of the US Air Force to treat and transport wounded warriors. He was later transferred to Detachment 3 of the 45th Space Wing, 45th Operational Group, Air Force Reserves, to provide medical direction for launch and landing.
In 2018, Menon joined SpaceX where he began its medical program and helped prepare for the company’s first manned flights. He served as chief flight surgeon for five launches and helped launch his research program, the private astronaut program, and worked on the development of Starship.
Menon started as a NASA flight surgeon in 2014. He supported four long-duration crew members on the ISS as Deputy Crew Surgeon for Soyuz missions Soyuz 39 and Soyuz 43, and Prime Crew Surgeon for Soyuz 52. He will report for duty in January 2022. To complete two years of initial astronaut training as a NASA astronaut candidate.
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