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Expedition 43

Expedition 43

Long-duration mission to the International Space Station

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.

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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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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

View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 43

Cupola view

View of Earth from the Cupola during Expedition 43

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Sharkey, Jim (11 June 2015). "Expedition 43 crew completes mission with successful landing in Kazakhstan". Spaceflight Insider. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  2. [2]
    "National Coffee Day: Java in Zero-G". 29 September 2015.
  3. [3]
    Charlie White. "Astronaut invents coffee cup for a weightless cup o' joe". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-08-31.
  4. [4]
    "Space Coffee | Science Mission Directorate".
  5. [5]
    "Space Coffee | Science Mission Directorate".
  6. [6]
    "Upcoming ISS expeditions". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
  7. [7]
    "Russian cosmonaut set for space station mission resigns". UPI. Space Daily. 5 September 2013.
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