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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]

See also

• ISS year long mission

References

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
• NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members