India-Origin US Airforce Doctor Anil Menon among 10 chosen by Nasa for as astronaut future mission: About, Details 

NASA has selected Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force, and nine others to be astronauts for future missions, according to the American space agency.

Menon, 45, is the son of Ukrainian and Indian immigrants who grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He was SpaceX's first flight surgeon, assisting in the launch of the company's first humans into space on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission and helping to develop a medical organisation to support the human system on future missions.

NASA stated in a statement that it had selected ten new astronaut candidates from a pool of over 12,000 applications to represent the United States and work in space for the benefit of humanity.

At an event on Monday, December 6 at Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson revealed the members of the 2021 astronaut class, the first new class in four years.

Today we welcome ten new explorers, ten members of NASA's 2021 astronaut candidate class, the Artemis generation, Nelson remarked.

Each contender has the right things on their own, but together, they reflect our country's creed: He said, "E pluribus unum out of many, one."

In January 2022, astronaut candidates will go to Johnson Space Center to begin a two-year training programme.

Operating and maintaining the complicated systems of the International Space Station, training for spacewalks, acquiring complex robotics skills, safely operating a T-38 training aircraft, and Russian language skills are the five key categories of astronaut candidate training.

Operating and maintaining the complicated systems of the International Space Station, training for spacewalks, acquiring complex robotics skills, safely operating a T-38 training aircraft, and Russian language skills are the five key categories of astronaut candidate training.

They might be assigned to missions such as doing research aboard the International Space Station, launching commercial spacecraft from American soil, and deep space missions to destinations such as the Moon using NASA's Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.

Pam Melroy, a former NASA astronaut and the agency's deputy administrator, addressed the candidates, "Each of you has an extraordinary background." You've stepped up to one of the highest and most thrilling kinds of public service, bringing diversity to our astronaut corps in a variety of ways.

U.S. citizens from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands were among the applicants.

NASA employed an online assessment tool and required candidates to have a master's degree in a STEM discipline for the first time. The women and men chosen for the 2017 astronaut class reflect America's diversity as well as the various career routes that can lead to a position in the astronaut corps.

Menon has worked for NASA as a crew flight surgeon on a number of voyages to the International Space Station.

He is an emergency medicine physician in active practise with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine.

He was a first responder as a physician during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2015 Nepal earthquake, and the 2011 Reno Air Show disaster.

He was a first responder as a physician during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2015 Nepal earthquake, and the 2011 Reno Air Show disaster as a physician.

Menon served in the Air Force as a flight surgeon for the 45th Space Wing and the 173rd Fighter Wing, where he flew over 100 sorties and transported over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team.

After Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams, aerospace engineer Sirisha Bandla became the third woman of Indian ancestry to fly into space in July.

Rakesh Sharma is the only Indian person who has travelled to space. On April 3, 1984, the former Indian Air Force pilot rode on the Soviet Interkosmos Soyuz T-11 spacecraft

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