{"id":374027,"date":"2026-07-15T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374027\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:54:08","slug":"houston-er-doctor-boards-iss-for-8-month-long-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374027\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ER doctor boards ISS for 8-month-long mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew will spend 8 months aboard the ISS, researching everything from in-space manufacturing to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 A Houston emergency room doctor is now aboard the International Space Station for a months-long mission.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anil Menon joined two Russian cosmonauts for a launch out of Kazakhstan just before 11 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The crew will spend 8 months aboard the ISS, researching everything from in-space manufacturing to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Menon practices emergency medicine at Memorial Hermann in the Texas Medical Center. He also completed his aerospace medicine residency at UTMB in Galveston.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/anil-menon-iss-houston-doctor\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crew will spend 8 months aboard the ISS, researching everything from in-space manufacturing to artificial intelligence. HOUSTON&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-374027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}