{"id":644,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/astronauts/644/","name":"Nikolai Tikhonov","status":{"id":2,"name":"Retired"},"agency":{"response_mode":"list","id":63,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.3.0/agencies/63/","name":"Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)","abbrev":"RFSA","type":{"id":1,"name":"Government"}},"image":{"id":903,"name":"[AUTO] Nikolai Tikhonov - image","image_url":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/nikolai2520tikhonov_image_20200129210520.jpg","thumbnail_url":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305191106.jpeg","credit":null,"license":{"id":1,"name":"Unknown","priority":9,"link":null},"single_use":true,"variants":[]},"response_mode":"detailed","type":{"id":2,"name":"Government"},"in_space":false,"time_in_space":"P0D","eva_time":"P0D","age":43,"date_of_birth":"1982-05-23","date_of_death":null,"nationality":[{"id":5,"name":"Russia","alpha_2_code":"RU","alpha_3_code":"RUS","nationality_name":"Russian","nationality_name_composed":"Russo"}],"bio":"Nikolay Vladimirovich Tikhonov (Russian: Николай В. Тихонов) was born May 23, 1982. He is a former Russian cosmonaut, selected in 2006.\r\n\r\nHe was selected as a backup flight engineer for Soyuz MS-02. He was made a prime crew member of Soyuz MS-04 but, due to Russian budget cuts, the crews were changed and Tikhonov was then slated to make his first spaceflight on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. He was again removed from the manifest due to delays in launching the Russian Nauka module. He was scheduled to fly into space as commander of the Soyuz MS-15 mission, although he was removed for a third time following the aborted launch of Soyuz MS-10, and the subsequent crew changes that followed. He was then scheduled to finally make his first flight onboard Soyuz MS-16 in 2020. However he reportedly got an eye injury a month before the launch, was replaced on the flight, and subsequently left the cosmonaut corps due to health issues.","wiki":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Tikhonov_(cosmonaut)","last_flight":null,"first_flight":null,"social_media_links":[],"flights_count":0,"landings_count":0,"spacewalks_count":0,"flights":[],"landings":[],"spacewalks":[]}