Washington, March 7 -- Dr. Anil Menon, son of Indian and Ukrainian immigrants, has graduated as a Nasa astronaut after a two-year-long training with the American space agency.

Anil Menon was selected by NASA to join the 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class and he reported for duty in January 2022. Menon was SpaceX's first flight surgeon, helping to launch its first humans to space during the 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 on the International Space Station. Menon is an actively practicing emergency medicine physician with fellowship training in wilderness and aerospace medicine.

As a physici...