The crew will spend 8 months aboard the ISS, researching everything from in-space manufacturing to artificial intelligence.
HOUSTON — A Houston emergency room doctor is now aboard the International Space Station for a months-long mission.
Dr. Anil Menon joined two Russian cosmonauts for a launch out of Kazakhstan just before 11 a.m. Tuesday.
The crew will spend 8 months aboard the ISS, researching everything from in-space manufacturing to artificial intelligence.
Menon practices emergency medicine at Memorial Hermann in the Texas Medical Center. He also completed his aerospace medicine residency at UTMB in Galveston.
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