New Delhi: Anil of Indian origin Menon, a lieutenant colonel of the US Air Force and former first flight surgeon of the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, has been selected along with nine other candidates. NASAfor manned space flight missions Moon Under the Artemis programme, which is to be launched by 2024-25 and is planned to send humans to the South Pole of the Moon.
Menon is among six men and four women selected from more than 12,000 people who applied to the US space agency to join the Artemis training program in March 2020. However, their inclusion in a rigorous two-year training program does not guarantee that each of them will be sent to the Moon. Menon is a practicing Emergency Medicine Physician with fellowship training in Aerospace Medicine.
Born to parents from India and Ukraine and raised in Minneapolis, Menon earned a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology from Harvard University in 1999 and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 2004. He later also completed a Doctor of Medicine from Stanford Medical School.
The 45-year-old helped launch SpaceX’s first humans into space in 2018 and was the lead flight surgeon for five SpaceX launches and also worked on its Starship project. married to Anna Menon, who works for SpaceX, the couple have two children. He also spent a year in India as a Rotary Ambassador Scholar to study and support the polio vaccination programme.
Like his NASA colleague and another PIO Raja Chari, Menon had served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force and made over 100 flights in an F-15 fighter jet and as part of the Critical Care air transport team. More than 100 patients were taken.
In 2014, Menon debuted as a NASA flight surgeon and as deputy crew surgeon for Soyuz missions Soyuz 39 and Soyuz 43 and as prime crew surgeon for Soyuz 52, supporting four long-term crew members on the ISS. .
As a physician, he was the first responder during the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and later the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. He was also deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.
“Today, we welcome 10 new explorers – 10 members of the Artemis generation,” NASA Administrator bill nelson Said during a selection ceremony. “It was the Apollo generation, and it did so much for so many people. Now it’s the Artemis generation,” he said.
Anil Menon and nine selected members will join a training program in January 2022 to become NASA astronaut candidates. After their training, they can be assigned to NASA missions that include research on the International Space Station, deep space missions to destinations including the Moon, on the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rockets.
Menon is among six men and four women selected from more than 12,000 people who applied to the US space agency to join the Artemis training program in March 2020. However, their inclusion in a rigorous two-year training program does not guarantee that each of them will be sent to the Moon. Menon is a practicing Emergency Medicine Physician with fellowship training in Aerospace Medicine.
Born to parents from India and Ukraine and raised in Minneapolis, Menon earned a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology from Harvard University in 1999 and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 2004. He later also completed a Doctor of Medicine from Stanford Medical School.
The 45-year-old helped launch SpaceX’s first humans into space in 2018 and was the lead flight surgeon for five SpaceX launches and also worked on its Starship project. married to Anna Menon, who works for SpaceX, the couple have two children. He also spent a year in India as a Rotary Ambassador Scholar to study and support the polio vaccination programme.
Like his NASA colleague and another PIO Raja Chari, Menon had served as a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force and made over 100 flights in an F-15 fighter jet and as part of the Critical Care air transport team. More than 100 patients were taken.
In 2014, Menon debuted as a NASA flight surgeon and as deputy crew surgeon for Soyuz missions Soyuz 39 and Soyuz 43 and as prime crew surgeon for Soyuz 52, supporting four long-term crew members on the ISS. .
As a physician, he was the first responder during the Haiti earthquake in 2010 and later the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. He was also deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.
“Today, we welcome 10 new explorers – 10 members of the Artemis generation,” NASA Administrator bill nelson Said during a selection ceremony. “It was the Apollo generation, and it did so much for so many people. Now it’s the Artemis generation,” he said.
Anil Menon and nine selected members will join a training program in January 2022 to become NASA astronaut candidates. After their training, they can be assigned to NASA missions that include research on the International Space Station, deep space missions to destinations including the Moon, on the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rockets.
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