Crew Prepares for Russian Soyuz MS-29 Launch | International Space Station
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian Soyuz MS-29 prime and backup crews completed final pre-flight training ahead of the scheduled July 14, 2026, launch of NASA’s Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina of Russia for a planned eight-month mission to the International Space Station. Their backups, NASA astronaut Deniz Burnham and cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Konstantin Borisov, joined them for the training sessions that took place June 29 through July 9. Footage includes the rollout of the Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle to its launch pad in Baikonur on July 11.
The trio will spend about eight months aboard the orbiting laboratory before returning to Earth in spring 2027.
During his expedition, Menon will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations intended to help humans prepare for future exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and to provide benefits on Earth. Among the hundreds of experiments planned during his mission, he will participate in studies to better understand astronaut vein structure, blood flow, and blood composition in microgravity. He also will test producing intravenous fluids using the space station’s potable water.
The Soyuz MS-29 mission will be his first spaceflight after he was selected as part of NASA’s 2021 astronaut class. A native of Minneapolis, Menon is an emergency medicine physician, mechanical engineer, and colonel in the United States Space Force. He also has served as an expedition flight surgeon supporting the agency’s crew members aboard the space station.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon's Official Biography:
For more than 25 years, people have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit, and build on the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon, as part of the Artemis program, and to Mars.
To learn more about International Space Station research, operations, and its crews, visit:
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Duration: 23 minutes
Release Date: July 13, 2026
Duration: 23 minutes
Release Date: July 13, 2026
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