The A-12 Oxcart was conceived as a clandestine reconnaissance machine capable of outrunning enemy defenses and photographing hostile territory at unprecedented speeds and altitudes.
The North American X-15 and the Lockheed A-12 Oxcart stand among the most extraordinary aircraft ever developed in the United States, representing two different but overlapping paths into the extreme frontiers of speed, altitude, and aerospace
awesome
[ aw-suhm ] adjective
causing or inducing awe; inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear:
Things that are awesome leave us in “awe” (an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like). That new shirt looks awesome or your haircut is awesome are incorrect uses of the term, “awesome”.
Michael Collins was born on October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy , his dad James Lawton Collins was the U.S. military attaché there from 1928-1932. For the first 17 years of his life he lived in Rome; Oklahoma; Governors Island, New York; Fort Hoyle (near Baltimore, Maryland); Fort Hayes (near Columbus, Ohio); Puerto Rico; San Antonio, Texas; and Alexandria, Virginia.
