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NORAD’s 54-year-old Tradition

NORAD, according to this history, has been tracking Santa since 1955, when a child’s call to Sears Roebuck was mistakenly directed to the Continental Air Defense Command instead.Inevitable, I suppose, that in 2009 you can follow Santa on Facebook, YouTube, Google Earth and Twitter.

Tony Reichhardt

December 8, 2009

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NORAD, according to this history, has been tracking Santa since 1955, when a child's call to Sears Roebuck was mistakenly directed to the Continental Air Defense Command instead.

Inevitable, I suppose, that in 2009 you can follow Santa on Facebook, YouTube, Google Earth and Twitter.

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Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.