31 October
- 1962 - A Thor-Ablestar launches the ANNA-1B satellite.
- 1968 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 251 satellite.
- 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 527 satellite.
- 1973 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 605 satellite.
- 1974 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Interkosmos-12 satellite.
- 1979 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
- 1980 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the FLTSATCOM 4 satellite.
- 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1219 satellite.
- 1981 - A Titan IIIC launches the OPS-4029 satellite.
- 1981 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1317 satellite.
- 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 16 spacecraft to resupply Salyut 7.
- 1984 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1607 satellite.
- 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1789 satellite.
- 1994 - A Proton-K launches the Elektro satellite.
- 1995 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 2322 satellite.
- 2000 - Expedition 1, the first permanent crew of the ISS, consisting of three cosmonauts, launches aboard the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft, atop a Soyuz-U rocket.
- 2001 - Soyuz TM-32 returns three cosmonauts - the ISS Expedition 2 crew, to Earth.
- 2010 - A Long March 3C launches the Beidou-2 G4 satellite for the Chinese Beidou Navigation Satellite System.
- 2011 - A Long March 2F launches the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft to perform China's first docking in space with the Tiangong-1 station.
- 2012 - A Soyuz-U launches Progress M-17M to resupply the ISS.