Anna Menon

Anna Wilhelm Menon is an American engineer and astronaut from Houston, Texas, born on 24 December 1985. She earned a bachelor degree from Texas Christian University with a double major in mathematics and Spanish, and a master degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University. She worked in the Mission Control Center at NASA Johnson, supporting medical hardware and software aboard the International Space Station, and later became a senior engineer at SpaceX. In 2024 she flew to space as a mission specialist and medical officer on the commercial Polaris Dawn mission, from 10 to 15 September 2024, a flight of just under five days that saw a new female altitude record and the first commercial spacewalk. NASA selected her on 22 September 2025 in astronaut group 24.