AMS Menon - 15.10.1976

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Anil Madhavan Samoilenko Menon został wyselekcjonowany w ramach NASA grupa 23 (2021).

Jest 648. człowiekiem w kosmosie.

Rozpoczął 28. dzień pobytu w kosmosie.

14.07.2026-00.04.2027 Sojuz MS-29 ISS-75S Tigris

Wykonał 2 spacery kosmiczne, które trwały w sumie 12h 50m.

15.10.1976 urodził się w Minneapolis w stanie Minnesota.

1995 ukończył Saint Paul Academy i Summit School w Saint Paul w stanie Minnesota.

1999 ukończył Harvard University, uzyskując tytuł licencjata z neurobiologii.

Po ukończeniu studiów na Harvard University spędził rok w Indiach, pracując nad kwestiami szczepień przeciwko polio.

2004 ukończył Stanford University, uzyskując tytuł magistra inżynierii mechanicznej.

Podczas studiów na Stanford University zaciągnął się do California Air National Guard.

2006 ukończył Stanford Medical School, uzyskując tytuł doktora medycyny.

2008 aplikował do NASA grupa 20.

19-21.11.2008 był jednym ze 113 kandydatów finalistów na astronautów, wezwanych do JSC na ocenę w ramach Grupy 1b.

2009 ukończył rezydenturę z medycyny ratunkowej na Stanford University.

2009 został wysłany do Afganistanu, aby wziąć udział w operacji „Trwała Wolność”, a jednocześnie służył w Himalayan Rescue Association, opiekując się wspinaczami na Mount Everest.

2010 odbył staż z medycyny środowiskowej.

Jako ratownik brał udział w łagodzeniu skutków trzęsień ziemi na Haiti w 2010 roku i w Nepalu w 2015 roku, a także w katastrofie podczas pokazów lotniczych w Reno w 2011 roku.

2012 ukończył rezydenturę z medycyny lotniczej na University of Texas Medical Branch, gdzie w tym samym roku uzyskał tytuł magistra zdrowia publicznego.

2014 rozpoczął pracę jako lekarz lotniczy w NASA, pełniąc funkcję zastępcy lekarza naczelnego amerykańskiej części załóg Sojuza TMA-13M i Sojuza TMA-17M oraz lekarza naczelnego załogi Sojuza MS-06.

15.10.2016 poślubił Annę Menon.

2018 dołączył do SpaceX, gdzie pełnił funkcję lekarza lotniczego podczas pierwszych pięciu załogowych lotów statku kosmicznego Crew Dragon.

W tym czasie kontynuował praktykę medyczną w różnych ośrodkach medycyny ratunkowej, w tym w California Hospital i Cedar Sinai Medical Center w Los Angeles.

Następnie przeniósł się do 173rd Fighter Wing jako lekarz lotniczy.

Podczas studiów na University of Texas odbył dwie tury w Grupie Transportowej Sił Powietrznych USA, gdzie zajmował się leczeniem i transportem rannych żołnierzy.

Później przeniósł się do Rezerwy Sił Powietrznych i został przydzielony do 45th Space Wing, które zapewnia kosmiczne wsparcie medyczne.

01.2022 rozpoczął podstawowe szkolenie kosmiczne w JSC.

05.03.2024 uzyskał aktywny status astronauty NASA.

11.2024 na forum NASASPACEFLIGHT pojawiły się informacje o jego szkoleniu w CPK.

02.05.2024 został nominowany na pułkownika Sił Powietrznych.

07.02.2025 jego przydział do głównej załogi statku kosmicznego Sojuz MS-29 został potwierdzony w oświadczeniu Państwowej Korporacji Roskosmos.

01.07.2025 jego przydział do głównej załogi statku kosmicznego Sojuz MS-29 i Ekspedycji 75 na ISS został oficjalnie ogłoszony w komunikacie prasowym JSC nr 25-043.

Do końca 2021 jego łączny nalot wyniósł ponad 1000 godzin.

Matka: Lisa Samoilenko, imigrantka z Ukrainy.
Ojciec: Shankaran Menon, indyjski imigrant z Kerali.
Jest prawnukiem Chettura Sankarana Naira.

Syn: James Menon, urodzony w 2018.
Córka: Grace Elizabeth Menon, urodzona w 2020.

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nasa-astronaut-candidate-anil-menon/

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/menon_anil.htm
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/m/menon-a.php

https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00648.htm
http://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/menon-anil-madhavan-samoilenko.html
http://www.astronaut.ru/as_usa/text/23_008.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/menon648ru.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Menon_(astronaut_candidate)

Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 10:26 PM · Jul 1, 2025
L'astronaute NASA Anil Menon s'envolera vers l'ISS en juin 2026 à bord de Soyouz MS-29 pour Expedition 75, avec Piotr Dubrov et Anna Kikina.
La mission est prévue pour durer 8 mois environ.

Anil Menon a "la particularité" d'être marié avec Anna Menon qui a volée dans l'espace lors de la mission Polaris Dawn en septembre 2024.
Un astronaute officiel et une astronaute "privée".

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1940147201076011187
https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1940145121431064941
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Astronaut Moments: Anil Menon
NASA Johnson 14.07.2026


NASA Astronaut Anil Menon Prelaunch News Conference (April 29, 2026)
NASA


NASA Astronaut Anil Menon Training Reel - July 1, 2026

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This NASA astronaut has spent years shaping the future of spaceflight. Now he’s finally heading to orbit
05-02-2026 BY Rebecca Heilweil

Anil Menon discusses his upcoming ISS mission, commercial space stations, and the unanswered medical questions of life in microgravity.



Anil Menon might have the world’s spaciest resume. After several years as a NASA flight surgeon, he became SpaceX’s medical director in 2018, where he authored research on the effects of space on the human body. In 2021, he was selected as a NASA astronaut and has spent the past several years training for his own journey to space. Along the way, he also supported his wife, Anna Menon, who traveled to space on a private mission in 2024 and was herself selected as a NASA astronaut last year.

Somewhere in the margins, Menon has also served as an Air Force Reserve member and emergency room doctor.

(...) At this point in time, in medicine, it’s not often you see totally new diseases, but we’re seeing new things in space. I think in the future, we’ll continue to see new things, and that’s probably the biggest thing.

If I were to just pick a specific thing for a concrete example, we’re seeing clotting happen in space in unexpected ways. You take a really healthy person, put them in space, there’s three things that increase your chance of a clot: One is injury, and that’s when your body closes the wound—[and] that’s normal. The other is stasis, which means if you just keep blood in a static spot, it’s going to clot. The other is some element of hypercoagulability. If you take oral contraceptives for women, it  makes you a little more prone to clotting. In space, what you’re getting is stasis on some level, so blood isn’t moving the same. You’re getting one cornerstone of that clotting triangle, and it just takes a little bit more to see something else. (...)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91534928/this-nasa-astronaut-has-spent-years-shaping-the-future-of-spaceflight-now-hes-finally-heading-to-orbit

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Anil Menon @astro_anil 11:08 AM · Sep 4, 2026
America leads in space, the harsest environment I have ever operated in, because of our leadership @NASAAdmin @SecAFOfficial and Lt Gen Miller and the incredible Guardians I’m honored to serve alongside.  You all are my inspiration - thank you for keeping us safe up here!

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin· Sep 3
Great call with my friend @astro_anil aboard the @Space_Station, alongside @SecAFOfficial Troy Meink and an incredible team back on Earth.
Anil is clearly an underachiever...a graduate of Harvard and Stanford, a pilot, physician, an adventurer, and a base camp doctor on Mt.

https://twitter.com/astro_anil/status/2095801195952517422

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Anil Menon @astro_anil 3:17 AM · Mar 3, 2026
People ask me all the time what astronaut training actually looks like day to day. So here's a sample week.
Every week is different — some weeks are heavy on sims, others on EVA prep or vehicle training. But this gives you a feel for the range: spacewalk practice, emergency scenarios, robotic arm ops, medical codes, jet flying, even Russian language. No two days are the same. And that's what makes this job incredible.

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https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2028655892598538481

Anil Menon @astro_anil 3:56 PM · Aug 10, 2026
Dragon window on Earth Moonlight Sonata.  Orion’s rise at about 0:45 - speeds changed on Timelapse.  15mm Aperture priority and auto ISO from today.

https://twitter.com/astro_anil/status/2086813918974878007

3) Wschód księżyca

Anil Menon @astro_anil 11:15 PM · Aug 21, 2026
I was worried I might get used to seeing sights like this.  I don’t.  This was a moon rise, on an iPhone, during a break from a required workout which is nearby the window.  It reminds me to carry that same sense of awe when I return.  Also, I can’t wait until we land on the moon again.

https://twitter.com/astro_anil/status/2090910596568916346

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NASA astronaut Anil Menon works inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module
iss075e0068313 (Aug. 21, 2026) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon works inside the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory module to remove a scientific payload from Kibo’s airlock that had been exposed to the vacuum of space. Credit: NASA/Jessica Meir
Uploaded on August 26, 2026
Taken on August 21, 2026

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NASA astronaut Anil Menon smiles for a portrait while conducting spacesuit maintenance
iss075e0103073 (July m31, 2026) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon smiles for a portrait while conducting spacesuit maintenance inside the International Space Station's Quest airlock. Menon cleaned the spacesuit’s water-cooling loops that keep a spacewalker comfortable while working in the extreme environment of space. Credit: Roscosmos/Anna Kikina
Uploaded on September 17, 2026
Taken on July 31, 2026

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Widok zorzy polarnej na poziomie ok. Kp 4 
https://www.facebook.com/JeffEdmondsonWX/videos/nasa-astronaut-anil-menon

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Refleksje astronauty.

Anil Menon @astro_anil 1:36 PM · Sep 7, 2026
My riskiest step was on Earth

Space station is the size of a football field and my first spacewalk with @astro_jessica took me past the 1-yard line immediately.  We pulled ourselves, hand over hand, to the end of the truss, past solar arrays and radiators, until there was no more space station—only Earth and space.

A mentor of mine @astro_g_dogg told me to take a moment to smell the roses since many spacewalkers miss the opportunity to marvel at our planet from outside station.  Before leaving the airlock, I didn’t want to get distracted by flowers; we had about as much work to do as we had life support available for work. Despite being as far removed from Earth and our secondary habitat as I could be, I knew there was a comfort zone in focusing on the task at hand, our training, and working in concert with the many talented people at NASA.  At the end of space station, I was surprised to find my aperture open, to be comfortable hanging from the edge, and to marvel at our planet and the ingenuity that has sustained this outpost over the past 26+ years.

Over the past month and 4 spacewalks, Expedition 75 continued to work, as a team, at the very edge of our reach, putting us at the tip of a robotic arm, which pointed directly away from Earth and station.  It was certainly farther than I ever thought I would go in my career. Because of the training, preparation, and team, it didn’t feel like the riskiest or most uncomfortable thing I’ve done.  The decision that felt riskiest was one Anna and I faced years earlier, back on Earth.

In 2018, my wife and I were struggling with the decision of whether to stay at NASA or to join SpaceX and help with their efforts to launch humans to space on the Demo-2 mission. It was an exciting opportunity because SpaceX had never hired a doctor before and I could count on one hand the number of physicians working in commercial space.  I had seen some of those jobs vanish and was warned that I might just as easily lose my job in commercial space.  It felt like a giant risk for Anna and me.  We were newly married, had long-term stability in our jobs at NASA, a newborn, a close group of friends, and we just committed to a new house in Houston. We worried that we would give much of that up by moving to Los Angeles and find ourselves moving back to Houston and starting over.

Even after careful consideration, the decision felt risky.  We discussed it with each other and trusted friends.  I spent time journaling about my values and purpose. One thing we kept coming back to in that search was that we both loved space and our driving why was seeing those seemingly insurmountable boundaries opened up even further. Ultimately, it was a leap of faith to leave for SpaceX because we could plan but we could not train, rehearse, or control that future.  I knew that it would be uncomfortable and feel risky. Yet, I also knew it was directionally aligned with our passion, a path of personal growth, and a greater opportunity for responsibility and ownership in our careers.  Both of us would have the chance to work on something new and unknown, albeit with no guarantees.

Now that I’ve been to the furthest reaches of my career and space, it’s clearer to me that there was a barrier to taking that jump in 2018, driven by uncertainty of a future I couldn’t control, one that I could only take day by day.  I’ll be looking for that risk and feeling of discomfort in the future and I’ll probably feel the same, I’ll probably be just as careful, and I’ll definitely jump again if it aligns with my values and passion.

https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2096925641765523910

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Interesujące różnice.

Anil Menon @astro_anil 8:33 PM · Sep 15, 2026
Two dramatically different star trail images.  The yellow gold happened over India where the city lights lit up Earth on these compiled 15 second exposures.  The red streak is closer to Vietnam where the fishing boats stand out in the ocean.

https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2099929503275327659
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AKT 2) https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=221.msg207291#msg207291

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Huragan Polo zintensyfikował siłę z kategorii 5 do 3.
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/explosive-intensification-for-hurricane-polo/

Anil Menon @astro_anil 11:18 PM · Sep 24, 2026
Polo over the Pacific.

https://x.com/astro_anil/status/2103232662701846677

Mexico's Pacific coast braces for Hurricane Polo's life-threatening landfall
By Aida Pelaez-fernandez and Raquel Cunha September 28, 202612:47 PM GMT+2 Updated 7 mins ago

(...) The storm is expected to dump 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 cm) of rain across the state, raising the risk of life-threatening flooding and ​mudslides.

Despite weakening slightly, Polo is expected to make landfall as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane, private forecaster AccuWeather said. It noted the storm ​was set to hit a sparsely populated area, though small towns, including Las Barrancas and San Juanico — both with fewer than 1,000 residents, according to the latest census — ‌lie in ⁠its path. (...)

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mexicos-pacific-coast-braces-hurricane-polos-life-threatening-landfall-2026-09-28/

2) Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific
NASA Earth Observatory Sep 30, 2026
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/powerful-storms-continue-to-prowl-the-pacific/

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Atar trails above Earth, blue lights of fishing boats, and yellow lights of Indonesian cities
iss075e0144232 (Sept. 20, 2026) --- This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Banda Sea. Credit: NASA/Anil Menon
Uploaded on September 28, 2026
Taken on September 20, 2026

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NASA astronaut Anil Menon prepares to take a portrait of his fellow crewmates
iss075e0157520 (Oct. 2, 2026) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon prepares to take a portrait of his fellow crewmates aboard the International Space Station while awaiting the arrival of NASA's SpaceX Crew‑13 mission and its four crew members. Credit: ESA/European Space Agency
Uploaded on October 6, 2026 / Taken on October 2, 2026

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