Expedition 32

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Long-duration mission to the International Space Station

title: "Expedition 32" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["expeditions-to-the-international-space-station", "2012-in-spaceflight"] description: "Long-duration mission to the International Space Station" topic_path: "general/expeditions-to-the-international-space-station" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_32" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Long-duration mission to the International Space Station ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox spaceflight"]

Field	Value
name	Expedition 32
image	Expedition 32 crew poster.jpg
image_caption	Promotional Poster
insignia	ISS Expedition 32 Patch.svg
insignia_caption	Expedition 32 mission patch
mission_type	Long-duration expedition
crew_size	6
crew_members	Expedition 31/32:
Gennady Padalka
Joseph M. Acaba
Sergei Revin

| mission_type = Long-duration expedition | mission_duration = | orbits_completed =

| crew_size = 6 | crew_members = Expedition 31/32: Gennady Padalka Joseph M. Acaba Sergei Revin

Expedition 32/33: Sunita Williams Yuri Malenchenko Akihiko Hoshide

| crew_EVAs = | crew_EVA_duration = | crew_photo = Expedition 32 crew portrait.jpg | crew_photo_caption = (l-r) Hoshide, Malenchenko, Williams, Acaba, Padalka and Revin

| previous_mission = Expedition 31 | next_mission = Expedition 33 | programme = ISS expeditions

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

::data[format=table] | Position | First part (July 2012) | Second part (July 2012 to September 2012) | Commander | Flight Engineer 1 | Flight Engineer 2 | Flight Engineer 3 | Flight Engineer 4 | Flight Engineer 5 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | RUS Gennady Padalka, RSA Fourth spaceflight | | | | | | | | | | USA Joseph M. Acaba, NASA Second spaceflight | | | | | | | | | | RUS Sergei Revin, RSA Only spaceflight | | | | | | | | | | | USA Sunita Williams, NASA Second spaceflight | | | | | | | | | | RUS Yuri Malenchenko, RSA Fifth spaceflight | | | | | | | | | | Japan Akihiko Hoshide, JAXA Second spaceflight | | | | | | | | ::

;Source: NASA

References

(16 September 2012). "Soyuz TMA-04M Spacecraft Undocks from Space Station". RIA Novosti.
Harding, Pete. (1 July 2012). "Soyuz TMA-03M undocks from ISS and returns to Earth". NASASpaceFlight (not associated with NASA).
NASA HQ. (2010). "NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions". NASA.
[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html Astronaut Bio: Sunita Williams]
[http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2009/11/20091118_iss_e.html Selection of Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide as a Member of the ISS Expedition Crew]
"Expedition 32 crew page". NASA.

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