The expedition's first three crew members – one US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts – arrived at the station on board Soyuz TMA-01M on 10 October 2010.

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli's mission to the space station was named MagISStra.

The name combines the word magistra, meaning "female teacher" in Latin, with the acronym "ISS", as suggested by Antonella Pezzani of Italy.

Cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Dmitri Kondratyev conducted both spacewalks.

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