ANIL MENON

About:

• 45 years old Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, was SpaceX's first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company's first humans to space during Nasa's SpaceX Demo-2 mission.
  
  
• Menon previously served Nasa as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions taking astronauts to the International Space Station.
  
  
• Earlier, aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla in July became the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams.
  
  
• Till now, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma is the only Indian citizen to travel in space. The former Indian Air Force pilot flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on April 3, 1984, part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme.