Expedition 43
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Mission type | ISS 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 |
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.
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]
Crew
[edit]Position | First Part (March 2015) |
Second Part (March 2015 to June 2015) |
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Commander | ![]() Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 1 | ![]() Second spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 2 | ![]() First spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 3 | ![]() Fifth and last Spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 4 | ![]() Second and last spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer 5 | ![]() Fourth and last spaceflight |
- Source
- Spacefacts[6]
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.
View of Earth
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Cupola view
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Sharkey, Jim (11 June 2015). "Expedition 43 crew completes mission with successful landing in Kazakhstan". Spaceflight Insider. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ "National Coffee Day: Java in Zero-G". 29 September 2015.
- ^ Charlie White. "Astronaut invents coffee cup for a weightless cup o' joe". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
- ^ "Space Coffee | Science Mission Directorate".
- ^ "Space Coffee | Science Mission Directorate".
- ^ "Upcoming ISS expeditions". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
- ^ "Russian cosmonaut set for space station mission resigns". UPI. Space Daily. 5 September 2013.
External links
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