Dikhyaa Mohanty 
NASA Picks Anil Menon Among 10 New Astronauts For Moon Mission In 2018, Indian-origin Anil Menon joined SpaceX where he started its medical program and helped prepare for the company’s first human flights.
According to the reports Anil Menon was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who helped launch the Elon Musk-run SpaceX’s first humans to space during the ‘Demo-2’ mission and built a medical organisation to support the human system during future missions.
Further, he served NASA as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Hr is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine.
The US space agency announced the selection of its newest class of astronauts late on Monday — six men and four women chosen from more than 12,000 people who applied to the space agency in March of 2020.Once they train and become full astronauts, they will have some exciting spaceflight opportunities ahead of them, potentially including flights to the Moon someday.
The astronauts are part of the so-called Artemis Generation. The name is a reference to NASA’s Artemis programme, which aims to send the first woman and the first person of colour to the lunar surface as early as 2025.
