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Soyuz 31 (Russian: Союз 31 Union 31) was a 1978 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 31 crew were the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn the first German cosmonaut into space.