Expedition 44

ISS Expedition 44
Expedition
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Mission type	ISS 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 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 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 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

Source: Spacefacts^[2]

Achievements

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

References

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