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Long-duration mission to the International Space Station From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Expedition 43 was the 43rd expedition to the International Space Station. It commenced on 11 March 2015 with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-14M, returning the crew of Expedition 42 to Earth and ended with the departure of Soyuz TMA-15M on 11 June 2015.
Mission type | Long-duration expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 11 March 2015 UTC |
Ended | 11 June 2015 UTC |
Arrived aboard | Soyuz TMA-15M Soyuz TMA-16M |
Departed aboard | Soyuz TMA-15M Soyuz TMA-16M Soyuz TMA-18M |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Expedition 42/43: Anton Shkaplerov Samantha Cristoforetti Terry W. Virts Expedition 43/44: Gennady Padalka Mikhail Korniyenko Scott Kelly |
Expedition 43 mission patch (l-r) Padalka, Kelly, Shkaplerov, Cristoforetti, Kornienko, Virts |
The Expedition 43 crew spent an extra "bonus month" on board pending investigation of the Progress M-27M cargo spacecraft failure.[1] On June 8, 2015 ISS adjusted its orbit to move to a safe distance from a piece of orbital space debris.[1]
This expedition also used the ISSpresso machine and tested a special cup designed to be drunk from in microgravity by using capillary flow.[2] This was a further development of a zero gravity cup invented by astronaut Donald Pettit and tested on ISS in 2008.[3][4] The new zero g coffee cup idea was further developed by a Fluid physicist at Portland State University among others.[5]
Position | First Part (March 2015) |
Second Part (March 2015 to June 2015) |
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Commander | Terry W. Virts, Jr., NASA Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Anton Shkaplerov, RSA Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Samantha Cristoforetti, ASI-ESA First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 | Gennady Padalka, RSA Fifth and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 | Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 | Scott Kelly, NASA Fourth and last spaceflight | |
Yury Lonchakov was originally supposed to be the Flight Engineer 3. However, he resigned from the Russian Federal Space Agency on September 6, 2013, to take a position at Gazprom.[7] He was also originally supposed to be the commander of Expedition 44.
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