Expedition 43 facts for kids
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| Mission type | ISS Expedition |
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| 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 |
 Expedition 43 mission patch  (l-r) Padalka, Kelly, Shkaplerov, Cristoforetti, Kornienko, Virts ISS expeditions
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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. 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
| Position | First Part (March 2015) |
Second Part (March 2015 to June 2015) |
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| Commander |  Terry W. Virts, Jr., NASASecond and last spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 1 |  Anton Shkaplerov, RSASecond spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 2 |  Samantha Cristoforetti, ASI-ESAFirst spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 3 | Gennady Padalka, RSA Fifth and last Spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 4 | Mikhail Korniyenko, RSA Second and last spaceflight |
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| Flight Engineer 5 | Scott Kelly, NASA Fourth and last spaceflight |
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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. He was also originally supposed to be the commander of Expedition 44.
Images for kids
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View of Earth taken during ISS Expedition 43
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View of Earth from the Cupola during Expedition 43
See also
In Spanish: Expedición 43 para niños
