NEWS CONF WITH NASA ASTRONAUT ANIL MENON, Apr 29, 2026, JSC, 1:45 pm ET

NASA will hold a news conference with astronaut Anil Menon on April 29, 2026 at Johnson Space Center, TX at 1:45 pm ET.

Menon is getting ready to launch to the International Space Station on an 8-month mission with two Russian colleagues, Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, on Soyuz MS-29 on July 14.

The news conference will air on NASA’s YouTube channel.  More information is in NASA’s press release.

This will be his first spaceflight. Menon is married to Anna Menon, who was a SpaceX employee when she flew on the Polaris Dawn mission with Jared Isaacman in 2024. She later was selected into the NASA astronaut corps.  Isaacman is now NASA Administrator.