Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Venera 2MV-2 No.1 also known as Sputnik 21 in the West was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1962 as part of the Venera programme and was intended to make a flyby of Venus. Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it it failed to leave low Earth orbit and reentered the atmosphere a few days later.