The Expedition 43 crew spent an extra "bonus month" on board pending investigation of the Progress M-27M cargo spacecraft failure.

[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.

However, he resigned from the Russian Federal Space Agency on September 6, 2013, to take a position at Gazprom.