Mission type | ISS Expedition | ||||
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Expedition | |||||
Space Station | International Space Station | ||||
Began | 1 July 2012, 04:48 | UTC||||
Ended | 16 September 2012, 23:09 | UTC||||
Arrived aboard |
Soyuz TMA-04M Soyuz TMA-05M |
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Departed aboard |
Soyuz TMA-04M Soyuz TMA-05M |
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Crew | |||||
Crew size | 6 | ||||
Members |
Expedition 31/32: Gennady Padalka Joseph M. Acaba Sergei Revin Expedition 32/33: Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide |
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(l-r) Hoshide, Malenchenko, Williams, Acaba, Padalka and Revin
Expedition 32 was the 32nd long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 1 July 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 31 crew to Earth, and concluded on 16 September 2012 with the departure of Soyuz TMA-04M. The Soyuz craft returned to Earth on 17 September 2012 at 6:53am Moscow Standard Time when touchdown was officially recorded by the Russian Federal Space Agency.