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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 of my head. There are others.

Was Pegasus their first launch ever?

Yes 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).

Yeah, if you are talking about organizations then that's possibly the only one. Seems strange though.

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