{"id":263,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/263/?format=json","name":"Valentina Tereshkova","status":{"id":2,"name":"Retired"},"type":{"id":2,"name":"Government"},"agency":{"id":63,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/63/?format=json","name":"Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)","type":"Government"},"date_of_birth":"1937-03-06","date_of_death":null,"nationality":"Russian","twitter":null,"instagram":null,"bio":"Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.\r\n\r\nIn order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space.","profile_image":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/valentina2520tereshkova_image_20181201222143.jpg","profile_image_thumbnail":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185716.jpeg","wiki":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova","flights":[],"landings":[],"last_flight":"1963-06-16T09:29:52Z","first_flight":"1963-06-16T09:29:52Z"}