{"id":83,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/83/?format=json","name":"Nikolai Budarin","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":"1963-04-29","date_of_death":null,"nationality":"Russian","twitter":null,"instagram":null,"bio":"Nikolai Mikhailovich Budarin (Russian: Николай Михайлович Бударин) (born April 29, 1953 in Kirya, Chuvashia) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, a veteran of three extended space missions aboard the Mir Space Station and the International Space Station. He has also performed eight career spacewalks with a total time of 44 hours.\r\n\r\nNamed a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then, he again made extended stays on Mir in 1998 and the International Space Station Expedition 6 from 2002 to 2003.","profile_image":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/nikolai2520budarin_image_20181128223920.jpg","profile_image_thumbnail":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305185610.jpeg","wiki":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Budarin","flights":[],"landings":[],"last_flight":"2002-11-24T00:49:47Z","first_flight":"1995-06-27T19:32:19Z"}