Expedition 31

ISS Expedition 31
	Promotional Poster
Mission type	ISS Expedition
Expedition
Space station	International Space Station
Began	27 April 2012, 08:15 UTC
Ended	1 July 2012, 04:48 UTC
Arrived aboard	Soyuz TMA-03M; Soyuz TMA-04M
Departed aboard	Soyuz TMA-03M; Soyuz TMA-04M
Crew
Crew size	6
Members	Expedition 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 ISS expeditions ← Expedition 30 Expedition 32 →

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]

^ ^a ^b "Soyuz TMA-22 returns to Earth with three outbound ISS crewmembers". NASASpaceflight.com, 27 April 2012.
^ ^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.