Expedition 44

Expedition 44
	Promotional Poster
Mission type	Long-duration expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	11 June 2015 UTC
Ended	11 September 2015 UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-16M; Soyuz TMA-17M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-16M; Soyuz TMA-17M; Soyuz TMA-18M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 43/44:; Gennady I. Padalka; Mikhail Korniyenko; Scott J. Kelly; ; Expedition 44/45:; Oleg Kononenko; Kimiya Yui; Kjell N. Lindgren
	; Expedition 44 mission patch; ; (l-r) Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko, Kimiya Yui, Scott Kelly, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko ISS expeditions ← Expedition 43 Expedition 45 →

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.

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.^[1]