Expedition 43
Long-duration mission to the International Space Station
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Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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Expedition | |
Space station | International Space Station |
Began | 11 March 2015 ( 2015-03-11Z ) UTC |
Ended | 11 June 2015 ( 2015-06-12Z ) 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
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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
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First Part
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Second Part
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Commander |
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Flight Engineer 1 |
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Flight Engineer 2 |
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Flight Engineer 3 |
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Flight Engineer 4 |
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Flight Engineer 5 |
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- 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
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/ISS-43_Saturday_Morning_coffee_with_my_old_friend_Planet_Earth.jpg/550px-ISS-43_Saturday_Morning_coffee_with_my_old_friend_Planet_Earth.jpg)
See also
References
- 1 2 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" . 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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