A Soyuz-U launched the uncrewed Progress M-31 cargo spacecraft from Baikonur to resupply the Mir space station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.6 T
- Flight
- 618th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 1996, 07:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1996-028
- Launches in 1996
- 29th of 77
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