Expedition 44

ISS Expedition 44
Mission type ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space Station International Space Station
Began 11 June 2015 (2015-06-11Z) UTC
Ended 11 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 size 6
Members Expedition 43/44:
Gennady Padalka
Mikhail Korniyenko
Scott Kelly

Expedition 44/45:
Oleg Kononenko
Kimiya Yui
Kjell N. Lindgren


(l-r) Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Scott Kelly, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko

ISS expeditions
← Expedition 43 Expedition 45 →

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.

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

Position First Part
(June to July 2015)		 Second Part
(July 2015 to September 2015)
Commander Gennady Padalka, RSA
Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1 Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2 Scott Kelly, NASA
Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 3 Oleg Kononenko, RSA
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4 Kimiya Yui, JAXA
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Russian cosmonaut due to command a flight to International Space Station quits to work for a gas company 'because his wife wants him to earn more money". DailyMail. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
  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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