On July 1, 2012 at 08:14 UTC the Soyuz TMA-03M landing capsule landed safely at a distance of 148 kilometers to South-East from the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 31 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, American astronaut Donald Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers (the Netherlands). They spent in space 192 days, 18 hours, 58 minutes and 37 seconds. Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American astronaut Joseph Acaba - remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station.
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