track Santa on Christmas eve with NORAD!
over 50 years NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) tracks Santa's movements to deliver presents to kids on Christmas eve. The Santa tracking system uses data captured via radar satellites (positioned in geo-synchronous orbit at 22,300m), Santa cams, and fighter jets (more info at http://www.noradsanta.org/en/howtrack.html)!
now you may track Santa not only online at NORA website http://www.noradsanta.org/, but also on your mobile, and in Google Earth! technology age:) this year NORAD teamed up with Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) to provide a special free hotline for children and their parents.
this tradition started accidentally thanks to an ad mistake! In 1955, a Sears store, at the time known as Sears Roebuck and Company, placed Christmas advertising that included a phone number where children could reach Santa Claus. the misspelled phone number was the hotline for the Director of Operations at the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), NORAD predecessor. As excited children began dialing on Christmas Eve, they reached CONAD, instead of Santa. The Colonel in charge recognized what had occurred, and as an act of kindness, had his team check the radar to see where Santa might be. Children were told of his speculated location when they called.
Tracking Santa became a Christmas Eve custom after that. When CONAD became NORAD, the custom was passed along and is still in practice today. Information about Santa is now available in six different languages and children and their families can track Santa by calling or by viewing the NORAD website.
*last day at work!!!
now you may track Santa not only online at NORA website http://www.noradsanta.org/, but also on your mobile, and in Google Earth! technology age:) this year NORAD teamed up with Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) to provide a special free hotline for children and their parents.
this tradition started accidentally thanks to an ad mistake! In 1955, a Sears store, at the time known as Sears Roebuck and Company, placed Christmas advertising that included a phone number where children could reach Santa Claus. the misspelled phone number was the hotline for the Director of Operations at the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), NORAD predecessor. As excited children began dialing on Christmas Eve, they reached CONAD, instead of Santa. The Colonel in charge recognized what had occurred, and as an act of kindness, had his team check the radar to see where Santa might be. Children were told of his speculated location when they called.
Tracking Santa became a Christmas Eve custom after that. When CONAD became NORAD, the custom was passed along and is still in practice today. Information about Santa is now available in six different languages and children and their families can track Santa by calling or by viewing the NORAD website.
*last day at work!!!