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Expedition 43 was the 43rd expedition to the
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International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...
. 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. On June 8, 2015 ISS adjusted its orbit to move to a safe distance from a piece of orbital space debris.
This expedition also used the ISSpresso machine and tested a special cup designed to be drunk from in microgravity by using capillary flow. This was a further development of a zero gravity cup invented by astronaut Donald Pettit and tested on ISS in 2008. The new zero g coffee cup idea was further developed by a Fluid physicist at Portland State University among others.
Crew
;Source: Spacefacts Yury Lonchakov was originally supposed to be the Flight Engineer 3. However, he resigned from theRussian Federal Space Agency
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on September 6, 2013, to take a position at Gazprom
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. He was also originally supposed to be the commander of Expedition 44.
View of Earth
Cupola view
See also
* ISS year long missionReferences
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page
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