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Mission type
  
ISS Expedition

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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

Expedition 44 crew opens hatch and enters the international space station


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.

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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.

Expedition 44 visiting soyuz crew bids farewell to space station


Crew

Source
Spacefacts

Achievements

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

References

Expedition 44 Wikipedia


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