posted 08-21-2024 08:53 PM               

This thread is intended for comments and questions about the Soyuz MS-29 mission to the International Space Station.

posted 08-21-2024 08:53 PM               

ISS-75: Pyotr Dubrov, Sergey Korsakov and Anna Kikina — launch on Soyuz MS-29.

posted 12-30-2024 08:53 AM               

Beginning with 2025, the flight duration of Soyuz MS spacecraft is set to be increased from six to seven-nine months, which will help economize on a spaceship every two years.

The agreement will additionally stipulate two flights by NASA astronauts aboard the Soyuz MS-28 and Soyuz MS-29 spaceships in 2025 and 2026, correspondingly, and three flights by Roscosmos cosmonauts on board Crew Dragon spacecraft (another additional flight in 2025, one flight in 2026 and one flight in 2027).

posted 07-01-2025 12:55 PM               

NASA Assigns Astronaut Anil Menon to First Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Anil Menon will embark on his first mission to the International Space Station, serving as a flight engineer and Expedition 75 crew member.

Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft in June 2026, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the trio will spend approximately eight months aboard the orbiting laboratory.

During his expedition, Menon will conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to help prepare humans for future space missions and benefit humanity.

Selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021, Menon graduated with the 23rd astronaut class in 2024. After completing initial astronaut candidate training, he began preparing for his first space station flight assignment.

Menon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is an emergency medicine physician, mechanical engineer, and colonel in the United States Space Force. He holds a bachelor's degree in neurobiology from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a master's degree in mechanical engineering, and a medical degree from Stanford University in California. Menon completed his emergency medicine and aerospace medicine residency at Stanford and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

In his spare time, he still practices emergency medicine at Memorial Hermann's Texas Medical Center and teaches residents at the University of Texas' residency program. Menon served as SpaceX's first flight surgeon, helping to launch the first crewed Dragon spacecraft on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building SpaceX's medical organization to support humans on future missions. He served as a crew flight surgeon for both SpaceX flights and NASA expeditions aboard the space station.

posted 04-29-2026 11:51 AM               

NASA astronaut Anil Menon is discussing his upcoming mission to the International Space Station — Menon's first spaceflight — in a live news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

posted 07-12-2026 01:44 PM               

• 9:45 a.m. – Launch coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.
  
  
• 10:47 a.m. – Launch
  
  
• 1:10 p.m. – Rendezvous and docking coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.
  
  
• 1:56 p.m. – Docking
  
  
• 3:30 p.m. – Hatch opening and welcome coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube.
  
  
• 3:55 p.m. – Hatch opening

posted 07-14-2026 08:26 AM               

Watch NASA astronaut Anil Menon's first mission to space begin as he launches to the International Space Station. He and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina will lift off aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft.

posted 07-14-2026 11:35 AM               

After lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft, NASA astronaut Anil Menon is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at 1:56 p.m. EDT (1756 UTC) on Tuesday, July 14.

posted 07-14-2026 01:33 PM               

Watch with us as a new trio is welcomed aboard the International Space Station, after their Soyuz spacecraft hatch opens at 3:55pm ET (1955 UTC), Tuesday, July 14. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina will spend about eight months aboard the orbital complex, advancing scientific research.

posted 07-14-2026 01:54 PM               

Soyuz MS-29 docks at space station

Soyuz MS-29 arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 14), completing an autonomous docking to the Prichal node at 1:52 p.m. EDT (1752 GMT).

The two spacecraft made contact as they were traveling 260 miles over the Mediterranean Sea.