Dr. Anil Menon to Lead Expedition 75 to the ISS: Eight-Month Mission with Life-Science Research and an Exterior Bacteria Test

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Anil Menon, a NASA astronaut and Space Force colonel, will launch to the ISS on Expedition 75 aboard Soyuz MS-29 with Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina for about eight months to study how long-duration spaceflight affects the human body and to test whether bacteria can survive on the station’s exterior, with plans to publicly publish the results to inform future Moon and Mars missions, drawing on his Harvard neurobiology degree and Stanford medical and engineering training and his experience as a flight surgeon.