Soyuz MS-29, identified by NASA as Soyuz 75S, is a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight launched from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 14 July 2026 to the International Space Station, where it dock
Soyuz MS-29 during launch on 14 July 2026
Soyuz MS-29 crew training at Johnson Space Center. From left: Menon, Kikina, and Dubrov.Soyuz programme← Soyuz MS-28Soyuz MS-30 →
Issacman (left) visiting Menon (right) in pre-flight quarantine
Issacman (left) and Bakanov (right) talk during news conference
Anil Madhavan Samoilenko Menon is a colonel in the United States Space Force, emergency medicine physician, and NASA astronaut. He was a flight surgeon at NASA and the medical director at SpaceX befor
Soyuz MS-29
…administrator Jared Isaacman attended the launch, the first visit to Baikonur by a NASA administrator in eight years. Isaacman had previously worked with Anil Menon, who served as the flight surgeon for Isaacman's first private SpaceX mission, and later flew with Menon's wife, Anna Menon, on his second private…
Official USSF portrait, 2026
Menon poses in front of an F-15 Eagle at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon
Menon at the Mission Control Center in Houston