Astronaut To Serve As Flight Engineer On June Soyuz Launch

Astronaut Anil Menon has been assigned his first mission to the International Space Station, NASA announced. He will serve as a flight engineer on Expedition 75 along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in June 2025.

New Shepard 33 Mission Completed After Two Scrubbed Attempts

On June 29, Blue Origin’s New Shepard program logged its 33rd flight and 13th with humans on board. The six-person crew brings the program’s total to 70 self-declared ‘astronauts’, including four who have come back for seconds. The suborbital flight lifted off from Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas.