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Space Marines were first introduced in War hammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987) by Rick Priestley, which was the first edition of the tabletop game.. The book Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (Rick Priestley and Bryan Ansell, 1990) was the first book from Games Workshop to give a backstory for the Space Marines.
This is a list of space forces, units, and formations that identifies the current and historical antecedents and insignia for the military space arms of countries fielding a space component, whether an independent space force, multinational commands, joint command, or as a part of another military service.
The earliest known use of the term "space marine" was by Bob Olsen in his short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" (Amazing Stories, Volume 7, Number 8, November 1932), a light-hearted work whose title is a play on the song "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines", and in which the protagonists were marines of the "Earth Republic Space Navy" on mission to rescue celebrity twins from aliens ...
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) serves as the U.S. Armed Forces' naval land force, responsible for executing amphibious warfare and operating in the maritime littorals in support of the U.S. Navy. Originally established in 1775 as the Continental Marines, the Marine Corps consists of the Regular Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve. [94]
NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's crewed launch vehicle until its retirement in 2011. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter was launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (eight have been carried) and up to 50,000 lb (22 700 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit.
Space Marines John York Cabot "The Odds on Sergeant Shane" 1941 Space Marines John York Cabot "Sergeant Shane Goes to War" 1942 Space Marines Duncan Farnsworth "Flight from Farisha" 1942 Space Marines D. D. Sharp "Pillage of the Space-Marine" 1943 Space-Marines Bob Courtney "Aid to the Enemy" 1943 Space-Marines Robert A. Heinlein "The Long Watch"
After the 1987 release of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 wargame, a military and [1] science fantasy [2] universe set in the far future, the company began publishing background literature to expand on existing material, introduce new content, and provide detailed descriptions of the universe, its characters, and its events.
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