Anil Menon Pre-Flight News Conference

NASA astronaut Anil Menon is discussing his upcoming mission to the International Space Station — Menon's first spaceflight — in a live news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center. 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. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021, Menon graduated with the 23rd astronaut class in 2024. Menon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is an emergency medicine physician, mechanical engineer, and colonel in the United States Space Force. Previously, Menon worked at SpaceX and served as the company’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the first crewed Dragon sp...

NASA will host a news conference at 1:45 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 29, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to preview astronaut Anil Menon’s