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Expedition 44

44th expedition to the International Space Station

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ13427474 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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The public source identifies “Expedition 44” as 44th expedition to the International Space Station. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Expedition, 44th and expedition.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Expedition, 44th and expedition providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13427474. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Expedition 44” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.