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Indian-origin Lieutenant Colonel and Doctor Anil Menon in the US Air Force has been selected by NASA as one of the 10 astronauts for future missions. (Photo Credits-NASA) Houston: The US space agency’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has appointed Indian-origin lieutenant colonel and doctor Anil Menon in the US Air Force for his future mission. Selected as 10 Astronauts (NASA Astronaut Candidates). The US Space Agency has announced. NASA said in a statement on Monday that it selected 10 new astronauts, half of whom are military pilots.
Indian-origin Anil Menon (45) was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Ukrainian and Indian parents. Dr. Anil Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping with the company’s first mission to launch humans into space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission, and a medical organization to support the human system during future missions constructed. Also Read – Modi-Putin met after two years, signed 28 agreements, cooperation extended by 10 years; Learn 10 big things The US space agency’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduced six men and four women during a ceremony in Houston.
Houston is the center of ‘Mission Control and Astronaut Corps’. For this more than 12 thousand people had applied. The 10 selected people, aged between 30 and 40, will be given the first two years of training to be able to travel in ‘spaceflight’. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Introduced members of the new class of astronauts, 2021, for the first time in four years, during the event on Monday (December 6th). Nelson said, “Today we are welcoming 10 new inventors, 10 new members of the Artemis generation, into NASA’s 2021 Astronaut Participation Orbit
, Participants will report on Johnson for two years of training from January 2022. Anil Menon previously served NASA as a crew flight surgeon for various missions that took astronauts to the International Space Station. He is an actively practicing emergency medical expert with fellowship training in jungle and aerospace medicine. Anil Menon as a doctor first responders during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2015 earthquake in Nepal and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident team’s
Part. In the Air Force, Menon served as a Flight Surgeon in the 45th Space Wing and 173rd Fighter Wing, where he made over 100 flights in an F-15 fighter jet and over 100 as part of the Critical Care Air Transport Team Treated more patients. Let us tell you that in July, aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla became the third woman of Indian origin to fly in space after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams. Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma is the only Indian citizen to travel in space. The former Indian Air Force pilot flew on a Soyuz T-11 on April 3, 1984, as part of the Soviet Intercosmos program.
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