Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 11 June 2015 | UTC
Ended | 11 September 2015 | 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 I. Padalka Mikhail Korniyenko Scott J. Kelly Expedition 44/45: Oleg Kononenko Kimiya Yui Kjell N. Lindgren |
Expedition 44 mission patch (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.
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]
Position | First Part (June to July 2015) |
Second Part (July 2015 to September 2015) |
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Commander |
Gennady Padalka,
RSA Fifth and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 |
Mikhail Korniyenko,
RSA Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 |
Scott Kelly,
NASA Fourth and last 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 |
In July 2015, Kelly and Lindgren became the first Americans ever to eat food grown entirely in space [3]