NASA selects Indian-origin Anil Menon for future space missions

NASA selects Indian-origin Anil Menon for future space missions

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Category : Science and Tech Published on: December 08 2021

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Anil Menon, an Indian-origin physician, and US Air Force lieutenant colonel, has been chosen by NASA for future space missions.
NASA has chosen a total of ten people for these missions. Starting in January 2022, all ten candidates will go through a two-year training programme at Johnson Space Center.
They will be assigned to various missions once they have completed their training. These could include research on the space station, trips to the Moon, and other deep space missions.
Anil Menon is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force.
He was SpaceX's first flight surgeon during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission, and he assisted in the development of a medical organisation for future missions.
Menon has also worked for NASA as a crew flight surgeon on various crewed expeditions to the International Space Station in addition to SpaceX. (ISS).

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