NASA Astronaut Anil Menon Prepares for Russian Soyuz MS-29 Launch
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NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
From left, NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Russia participate in a training session at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, ahead of their upcoming mission to the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 crewmember Anil Menon, left, and his wife, NASA astronaut candidate Anna Menon, right, pose for a photograph between glass, Monday, July 13, 2026, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon is seen in quarantine, behind glass, during a press conference, Monday, July 13, 2026, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon is seen in quarantine, behind glass, during a press conference, Monday, July 13, 2026, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon: "7/22/2015 NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren launched from Baikonur and I was his flight doctor."
7/14/2026 "I’ll launch from Baikonur and he is supporting me from the flight operations directorate at NASA."
Expedition 75 crewmembers: NASA astronaut Anil Menon, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina of Russia are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. local time) aboard their Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 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.
Image Credits: NASA's Johnson Space Center/Robert Markowitz/John Kraus/Josh Valcarcel
Dates: Jan. 8-July 14, 2026
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