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Only five states and territories had launches that got into orbit: Florida, California, Virginia, Alaska and Marshall Islands

But when is the first time a rocket launched from each of those that states reached orbit?

Jon Heller said he would answer this question using his great SQL tools.

Florida is the most easy because it had the first launch of a USA satellite.

  • Florida - 1 February 1958 - Explorer 1

For California I could only find Athena I rocket launching Lewis satellite at 23 August 1997

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    $\begingroup$ All the states are firmly affixed to the surface of the Earth. $\endgroup$ – Organic Marble Dec 17 '20 at 17:39
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    $\begingroup$ If you mean "an astronaut from each USA state", that's something you should be able to easily research on your own. Wikipedia has time-ordered lists of all crewed spaceflights. $\endgroup$ – Russell Borogove Dec 17 '20 at 17:41
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    $\begingroup$ Space Exploration, where "research effort" is a slogan. $\endgroup$ – Organic Marble Dec 17 '20 at 18:12
  • $\begingroup$ Jon Heller said he would answer with a quick SQL $\endgroup$ – Joe Jobs Dec 17 '20 at 18:18
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    $\begingroup$ Florida Had To. Texas was getting close, and we cannot allow a missile gap. Yeah, states were all competitive like that and not on the same team. OK that was being sarcastic, but now I realize it doesn't work when states today actually aren't on the same team. No, it wasn't like that, then. it was Team America against the Soviets, end of subject. $\endgroup$ – Harper - Reinstate Monica Dec 17 '20 at 23:48

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