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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. 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.