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Detailed explanation-1: -Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

Detailed explanation-2: -Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch its first humans to space during the Demo-2 mission and building a medical organization to support the human system during future missions.

Detailed explanation-3: -About the Anil Menon: He graduated in neurobiology from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1999 and got his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from California’s Stanford University in 2004.

Detailed explanation-4: -Menon is a lieutenant colonel in the US air force and was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon. He served Nasa as the crew flight surgeon for various expeditions on the International Space Station (ISS). Menon started as a Nasa flight surgeon in 2014.

Detailed explanation-5: -Indian-origin astronaut Raja Chari, who docked to the International Space Station (ISS) in November last year, is all set to return home to planet Earth later this month after spending almost six months in zero gravity.