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Kerala celebrates NASA astronaut Anil Menon’s historic journey to ISS

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Kerala celebrates NASA astronaut Anil Menon’s historic journey to ISS

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Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Crew members NASA astronaut Anil Menon, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina attend a send-off ceremony before the launch of the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Reuters People of the State celebrated and felt proud as Kerala-origin NASA astronaut Anil Menon flew to ISS on Tuesday. He is the great-grandson of former State Congress chief Sir C. Sankaran Nair. Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar congratulated Mr. Born in Minneapolis to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants, Mr. Shankaran Menon and Elizabeth, an immigrant from Ukraine to the U.S. Menon, 49, has also spent a year in India as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to study and support Polio vaccination initiatives.

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