{"id":66,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/66/?format=json","name":"Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin","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":"1953-07-30","date_of_death":null,"nationality":"Russian","twitter":null,"instagram":null,"bio":"Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Баландин) (born July 30, 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married with two children. He was selected as a cosmonaut on December 1, 1978, and retired on October 17, 1994.\r\n\r\nHe flew as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-9.\r\n\r\nHe worked at NPO Energia until 1994, and was then President of Lendint-Association until 2000","profile_image":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/aleksandr2520nikolayevich2520balandin_image_20181128221033.jpg","profile_image_thumbnail":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190010.jpeg","wiki":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Nikolayevich_Balandin","flights":[],"landings":[],"last_flight":"1990-02-11T06:16:00Z","first_flight":"1990-02-11T06:16:00Z"}