Expedition 32

Occurred 13 years ago

Expedition 32 tested a new microsatellite deployment system and studied blood cells, the human circadian rhythm, extreme weather observations, and much more.

Mission Type

ISS Expedition

meet the crew

Gennady Padalka, Yuri Malenchenko, Sergey Revin, Joe Acaba, Sunita Williams, Akihiko Hoshide

Launch

May 14, 2012

Landing

Sept. 16, 2012

Expedition 32 Official Crew Portrait — The official Expedition 32 crew portrait with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, Roscosmos cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Joe Acaba, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin.
NASA

Expedition 32 Official Crew Insignia — The official insignia of the Expedition 32 mission aboard the International Space Station.

Crew Members

Gennady Padalka, Commander
Yuri Malenchenko, Flight Engineer
Sergei Revin, Flight Engineer
Joe Acaba, Flight Engineer
Sunita Williams, Flight Engineer
Akihiko Hoshide, Flight Engineer

Crew and Cargo Missions

9/16/12 – Expedition 31/32 Land
9/11/12 – HTV-3 Kounotori Released
8/1/12 – P48 Launch/Dock
7/30/12 – 47P Second Undock
7/28/2012 –47P Redock
7/27/12 – HTV-3 Kounotori Berth
7/22/12 – 47P First Undock
7/20/12 – HTV-3 Kounotori Launch
7/17/12 – Expedition 32/33 Dock
7/14/12 – Expedition 32/33 Launch

Spacewalks

Date: Sept. 5, 2012
Duration: 6 hours, 28 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sunita Williams, Aki Hoshide

Date: Aug. 30, 2012
Duration: 8 hours, 17 minutes
Spacewalkers: Sunita Williams, Aki Hoshide

Date: Aug. 20, 2012
Duration: 5 hours, 51 minutes
Spacewalkers: Gennady Padalka, Yuri Malenchenko

Expedition 32 Resources

News Releases

The news releases for Expedition 32 covering a variety of mission events and other activities both on Earth and in space.

Earth's Moon, Venus, Jupiter and the crescent of Earth at the top.

Expedition Press Kit

Get an overview of the Expedition, its crew and the activities they are working on during this mission to the International Space Station.

The sun's first rays burst over the Earth's horizon

Mission Summary

Explore hands-on activities, interactive, lesson plans, educator guides, and other downloadable content about this topic.

The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) Growth and Extinction Limits (GEL) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) studies flame growth and extinction in an effort to improve fire safety in space. This image shows a sequence of snapshots taken about 3 seconds apart. During this test point, the ambient oxygen concentration starts relatively high (28%). Initially, the flame is seen as yellow and sooty. As the ambient pressure is reduced, the flame becomes bluer and continues to shrink until fully extinguished. This gives researchers pressure limit data points for flame extinction that could help improve crew and spacecraft safety for future exploration missions.

Mission Science

Learn more about the range of microgravity science encompassing human research, space phsyics, and more the Expedition 32 crew has conducted.

One of the Expedition 41 crew members aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 222 nautical miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Africa near the Tropic of Cancer, photographed this eye-catching panorama of the night sky and the Milky Way on Sept. 27. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, flight engineer, tweeted the image, which was taken with an electronic still camera, set with a 24mm focal length. In his accompanying comments, Wiseman stated, "Sahara sands make the Earth glow orange."

Mission Imagery

During Expedition 32, the crew took images of the Earth views, the orbiting station, their daily lives aboard and the experiments they conducted during their stay, plus so much more. Check out some of the image highlights from Expedition 32 in the gallery.