Expedition 43

ISS Expedition 43

Mission type	ISS Expedition
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
(l-r) Padalka, Kelly, Shkaplerov, Cristoforetti, Kornienko, Virts ISS expeditions ← Expedition 42 Expedition 44 →

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.

Crew

Position	First Part (March 2015)	Second Part (March 2015 to June 2015)
Commander	Terry Virts, NASA Second 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 Spaceflight
Flight Engineer 4		Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer 5		Scott Kelly, NASA Fourth spaceflight

Source

Spacefacts^[1]

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.^[2] He was also originally supposed to be the commander of Expedition 44.

References

1. "Upcoming ISS expeditions". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
2. "Russian cosmonaut due to command a flight to International Space Station quits to work for a gas company 'because his wife wants him to earn more money". DailyMail. Retrieved 2014-02-05.

External links

• NASA's Space Station Expeditions page