SpaceX engineer Anna Menon will join the crew of four for a special space mission. Previously, the mission, namely the Polaris program, was announced by American billionaire Jared Issacman, who last year led the world’s first fully private space crew into orbit.
According to the SpaceX release on Monday, Anna Menon is a Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX. She works on crew operations development and serves as mission director and crew communicator. Anna Menon was part of several operations such as Demo-2, Crew-1, CRS-22 and CRS-23 as a mission controller. Previously, Anna spent seven years at NASA as a biomedical flight controller for the International Space Station.
Her husband of Indian descent, Anil Menon, is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force. He, along with nine others, was selected as an astronaut for future missions by NASA last December. He was born and raised in Minnesota and his parents were immigrants from Ukraine and India.
Aside from Anna, the mission will feature Isaacman, a veteran member of Isaacman’s team Scott Poteet and SpaceX collaborator Sarah Gillis.
The program announced by Issacman is quite unique in itself in that it will help advance human spaceflight capabilities and it will also raise funds and awareness for Earth sustainability. It will have up to three manned space flights. All these missions will be based on new technologies, undergo extensive research and then launch the first flight of SpaceX’s spaceship with humans as its part.
The program’s first mission will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late 2022.
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