Expedition 44

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Expedition 44
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Promotional Poster
Mission type Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station International Space Station
Began11 June 2015 (2015-06-11Z) UTC
Ended11 September 2015 (2015-09-12Z) UTC
Arrived aboard Soyuz TMA-16M
Soyuz TMA-17M
Departed aboard Soyuz TMA-16M
Soyuz TMA-17M
Soyuz TMA-18M
Crew
Crew size6
MembersExpedition 43/44:
Gennady I. Padalka
Mikhail Korniyenko
Scott J. Kelly

Expedition 44/45:
Oleg Kononenko
Kimiya Yui
Kjell N. Lindgren
ISS Expedition 44 Patch.svg
Expedition 44 mission patch
Expedition 44 crew portrait.jpg
(l-r) Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Scott Kelly, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko

Expedition 44 was the 44th expedition to the International Space Station. It commenced with the departure of Soyuz TMA-15M from the ISS with the Expedition 42/43 crew on 11 June 2015 and ended with the departure of Soyuz TMA-16M on 11 September 2015.

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Yury Lonchakov was originally supposed to be the commander of Expedition 44 following being Flight Engineer 3 on Expedition 43. However, he resigned from the Russian Federal Space Agency on September 6, 2013. [1]

Crew

PositionFirst Part
(June to July 2015)		Second Part
(July 2015 to September 2015)
Commander Flag of Russia.svg Gennady Padalka, RSA
Fifth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Flag of Russia.svg Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Flag of the United States.svg Scott Kelly, NASA
Fourth and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3 Flag of Russia.svg Oleg Kononenko, RSA
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4 Flag of Japan.svg Kimiya Yui, JAXA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5 Flag of the United States.svg Kjell N. Lindgren, NASA
First spaceflight
Source
Spacefacts [2]

Achievements

In July 2015, Kelly and Lindgren became the first Americans ever to eat food grown entirely in space [3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Russian cosmonaut set for space station mission resigns". UPI. Space Daily. 5 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Upcoming ISS expeditions". Spacefacts . Retrieved 2013-03-16.
  3. ↑ "Astronauts Snack on Space-Grown Lettuce for First Time". Space.com . Retrieved 2015-08-11.


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