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> Nobody has ever successfully launched a rocket to orbit on their first try This is just false. See Orbital Sciences Pegasus first flight, right off the top o
by trollerator23 4y ago
> Nobody has ever successfully launched a rocket to orbit on their first try
This is just false. See Orbital Sciences Pegasus first flight, right off the top of my head. There are others.
- RandallBrown 4y agoWas Pegasus their first launch ever?
- bryanlarsen 4y agoYes it was, trollerator was right, I was wrong, at least as far as Pegasus goes. But the second part of his claim is wrong: AFAICT there aren't any others. Pegasus was solid fueled, which is an easier design than a liquid one, but it's not that much easier. Big props to Orbital Sciences (or at least what's left of them in the Northrop Grumman behemoth).
- trollerator23 4y agoYeah, if you are talking about organizations then that's possibly the only one. Seems strange though.