Launch Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
11:32:00
Thursday October 21, 1971
2nd stage oxidizer leak starting at T+20 seconds. The attitude control system ran out of propellant trying to correct the stage's flight path and the launch vehicle reentered the atmosphere and broke up above the Arctic Circle.
8th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1971
100th
Orbital launch attempt