Anil Menon (astronaut)

Anil Menon lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants. He is SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organization to support the human system during future missions. Prior to that, he served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station. Menon is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine. As a physician, he was a first responder during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 2015 earthquake in Nepal, and the 2011 Reno Air Show accident. In the Air Force, Menon supported the 45th Space Wing as a flight surgeon and the 173rd Fighter Wing, where he logged over 100 sorties in the F-15 fighter jet and transported over 100 patients as part of the critical care air transport team.

Anil Menon
Born	Anil Menon 1976 (age 44–45) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Status	Active
Alma mater	Harvard University (AB) Stanford Medical School (MD)
Space career
NASA Astronaut / SpaceX Medical Director
Current occupation	SpaceX Medical Director/NASA astronaut training
Time in space	None
Selection	NASA Group 23

Anil Menon, SpaceX Medical Director on the left seen during SpaceX Demo 2 mission

As of 2021 Menon was selected as an NASA astronaut.[1]

He is married to Anna Menon, who is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX.