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How does NORAD track Santa- and why do they do it? The answers, plus how to participate [with links]
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — It’s a Christmas story we look forward to bringing you every year. NORAD is busy working this morning to track Santa. They have been tracking Santa since 1955.
And it all started with an accidental phone call made by a young boy from Colorado Springs hoping to get in touch with Santa, legend says. But he reached NORAD instead. "He went on a little bit ...
In 1955, 6-year-old Terri Shoup Van Keuren was living with her family in Colorado Springs. Her father, Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, was stationed at CONAD, NORAD's predecessor. "The year 1955 was ...
Every year on Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) just up the road from Pueblo in Colorado Springs takes on an important mission. Since 1955, kids across the ...
NORAD, which is responsible for protecting the ... a child called the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Air Force Col. Harry Shoup, who answered ...
On any other night, NORAD is scanning the heavens for potential threats, such as last year’s Chinese spy balloon. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers in Colorado Springs are fielding questions like ...
In 1955, 69 years ago, a Colorado store printed a phone number ... starting a tradition for the organization that would eventually become NORAD that continues to this day. The North American ...
Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) NORAD and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) post skeleton crews in the mountain to keep the place ready for training exercises and occasional ...
Circumnavigating our planet bringing toys and joys is no simple task for Santa Claus and his high-flying reindeer, and whether Rudolph's red nose is needed or not this year, it’s still a ...
NORAD has tracked Santa's progress on Christmas Eve for nearly seven decades. According to legend, in 1955, an ad in a Colorado Springs newspaper invited children to call Santa but inadvertently ...
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