Expedition 44

ISS Expedition 44
	Promotional Poster
Mission type	ISS 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]