Expedition 31

Expedition 31
Promotional Poster
Mission typeLong-duration expedition
Expedition
Space stationInternational Space Station
Began27 April 2012, 08:15 (2012-04-27UTC08:15Z) UTC[1]
Ended1 July 2012, 04:48 (2012-07-01UTC04:49Z) UTC[2]
Arrived aboardSoyuz TMA-03M
Soyuz TMA-04M
Departed aboardSoyuz TMA-03M
Soyuz TMA-04M
Crew
Crew size6
MembersExpedition 30/31:
Oleg Kononenko
André Kuipers
Don Pettit

Expedition 31/32:
Joseph M. Acaba
Gennady Padalka
Sergei Revin

Expedition 31 mission patch

(l-r) Acaba, Padalka, Revin, Kuipers, Kononenko and Pettit

Expedition 31 was the 31st long-duration expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). It began on 27 April 2012 with the departure from the ISS of the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft, which returned the Expedition 30 crew to Earth.[1] The expedition ended on 1 July 2012, when crew members Oleg Kononenko, André Kuipers and Don Pettit departed from the ISS aboard Soyuz TMA-03M, marking the beginning of Expedition 32.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Soyuz TMA-22 returns to Earth with three outbound ISS crewmembers". NASASpaceflight.com, 27 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b Harding, Pete (1 July 2012). "Soyuz TMA-03M undocks from ISS and returns to Earth". NASASpaceFlight (not associated with NASA). Retrieved 3 July 2012.