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The Air Force also planned to have its own squadron of shuttles.

As depicted in Moonraker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asgLef3oVAw

I used to work with an English chap who made a habit of reminding me that Moonraker had US Space Marines a good few years before Aliens … Semper Fi!

And a good few decades before space force!

Moonraker is one of the only movies to properly depict a Shuttle launch, and it came out before the Shuttle ever flew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH3EsUTPihg

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