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.
Crew
PositionFirst part(July 2012)Second part(July 2012 to September 2012)Commander Gennady Padalka, RSAFourth spaceflightFlight Engineer 1 Joseph M. Acaba, NASASecond spaceflightFlight Engineer 2 Sergey Revin, RSAOnly spaceflightFlight Engineer 3 Sunita Williams, NASASecond spaceflightFlight Engineer 4 Yuri Malenchenko, RSAFifth spaceflightFlight Engineer 5 Akihiko Hoshide, JAXASecond spaceflight
Source NASAAstronaut Bio: Sunita WilliamsSelection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew
References
External links
NASA's Space Station Expeditions page Expedition 32 Photography