which has since been renamed Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post) NORAD and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) post skeleton crews in the mountain to keep ...
Tracking Santa has been part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s mission since 1955. Here’s how they track Santa and how the operation started.
Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado on Dec. 24, 2014. (Brennan Linsley/AP) The Christmas tradition has ...
now NORAD, a joint U.S. and Canadian effort to spot potential enemy attacks. Tensions were growing with the Soviet Union, along with anxieties about nuclear war. Air Force Col. Harry W.