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{{Infobox launch pad
|name = Site 31/6
|image=Soyuz 2 metop.jpg
|imsize=250
|caption=A [[Soyuz-2 (rocket)|Soyuz-2]] rocket at LC-31/6.
|site = [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]]
|location =
|operator = [[RVSN]], [[VKS]], [[Russian Federal Space Agency|RKA]]
|tlaunches = TBC
|inclination = 49° – 99°
|pads = 1
|short = LC-31/6
|paddetails = {{Infobox launch pad/pad
|status = Active
|launches =TBC
|first = [[R-7A Semyorka|R-7A]], 14 January 1961
|last = 
|rockets = [[R-7A Semyorka|R-7A]]<br>[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok]]<br>[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod]]<br> [[Polyot (rocket)|Polyot]]<br>[[Molniya (rocket)|Molniya]]<br>[[Soyuz (rocket)|Soyuz]]<br/>[[Soyuz-L]]<br/>[[Soyuz-U]] (current)<br/>[[Soyuz-U2]]<br>[[Soyuz-FG]]/[[Fregat]] (current)<br>[[Soyuz-2 (rocket)|Soyuz-2]] (current)}}
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'''Site 31/6''' at the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], in Kazakhstan, is a launch site used by derivatives of the [[R-7 Semyorka]] missile. From 2011 onwards, it was supposed to be the launch site for manned [[Soyuz programme|Soyuz]] missions to the [[International Space Station]], when launches switched from the [[Soyuz-FG]] carrier rocket to the [[Soyuz-2 (rocket)|Soyuz-2]], which was unable to use the launch pad at [[Gagarin's Start|Site 1/5]]. However, Site 1/5 has undergone modifications that allow the manned ISS missions to be launched from it.
Only few manned missions to the International Space Station are launched from Site 31/6 ([[Soyuz TMA-06M]], [[Soyuz TMA-15M]], [[Soyuz MS-02]]), when Site 1/5 is unavailable.

It was first used on 14 January 1961, for an [[R-7A Semyorka|R-7A]] [[ICBM]] test mission. It is currently used for commercial [[Soyuz-FG]]/[[Fregat]] missions, and [[Soyuz-2 (rocket)|Soyuz-2]] launches. In the 1970s and early 1980s, several manned missions were launched from the site.

{{wide image|Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31.JPG|500px|A panorama of the Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 taken from atop the [[Soyuz (rocket family)|Soyuz]] support structure. A [[Zenit (rocket family)|Zenit]] facility can be seen in the distance.}}

== See also ==
*[[Gagarin's Start]] (Baikonur Site 1)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/sites/bairlc31.htm |title=Baikonur LC31 |publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica}}
== Further reading ==
* J. K. Golovanov, "Korolev: Facts and myths", [[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]], 1994, ISBN 5-02-000822-2;
* [http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/chertok/kniga-1/01.html "Rockets and people"] – [[Boris Chertok|B. E. Chertok]], M: "mechanical engineering", 1999. ISBN 5-217-02942-0 {{ref-ru}};
* «A breakthrough in space» - Konstantin Vasilyevich Gerchik, M: LLC "Veles", 1994, - ISBN 5-87955-001-X;
* "Testing of rocket and space technology - the business of my life" Events and facts - [[Arkady Ostashev|A.I. Ostashev]], [[Korolyov, Moscow Oblast|Korolyov]], 2001.[http://cosmosravelin.narod.ru/r-space/bibliografia.html];
* "Baikonur. Korolev. Yangel." - M. I. Kuznetsk, Voronezh: IPF "Voronezh", 1997, ISBN 5-89981-117-X;
* "Look back and look ahead. Notes of a military engineer" - Rjazhsky A. A., 2004, SC. first, the publishing house of the "Heroes of the Fatherland" ISBN 5-91017-018-X.
* "Rocket and space feat Baikonur" - Vladimir Порошков, the "Patriot" publishers 2007. ISBN 5-7030-0969-3
* "Unknown Baikonur" - edited by B. I. Posysaeva, M.: "globe", 2001. ISBN 5-8155-0051-8

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