India, July 17 -- Indian origin NASA astronaut Anil Menon has recently reached the International Space Station (ISS) on his first space mission, drawing attention from people in India and around the world. Travelling aboard Russia's Soyuz MS 29 spacecraft, Menon will spend several months on the orbiting laboratory, where he and his fellow crew members will carry out scientific research, technology demonstrations and maintenance work.

Anil Menon is a NASA astronaut, emergency medicine physician and lieutenant colonel in the United States Space Force. Born and raised in the United States, he is of Indian and Ukrainian heritage. His father is from India, while his mother is from Ukraine.

Menon studied neurobiology at Harvard University bef...