FILE – NORAD Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Charles D. Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24, 2014.

Its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command, handled the project for three years before NORAD took over. Here's what to know as the tracker mapped out Santa's journey. From his starting ...

Luckey takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force ... Air Force Base in Colorado on Dec. 24, 2017. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP) Phone calls ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command defends North American airspace 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. But on Christmas Eve, it tackles perhaps its most important mission: tracking Santa ...

NORAD also updates its website following Santa's progress on Christmas Eve. Here's what to know about NORAD "Tracks Santa" and how to follow Santa's journey this Christmas Eve. A Sears ad printed ...

AP The Christmas tradition has become nearly global in scope: Children from around the world track Santa ... at the NORAD center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs in 2017.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has been tracking Santa’s Christmas Eve journey since 1955. Self-described as Santa’s official tracker, NORAD provides up-to-the-minute ...

NORAD's live Santa Tracker will once again follow St. Nick all night on Christmas Eve LiveNOW from FOX will have special coverage, including some updates from the man himself NORAD’s Santa Tracker, ...

This image provided by NORAD shows the command's Santa tracker. (NORAD via AP ... at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado on Dec. 24, 2017. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP) Phone calls aside ...

Maj. Chris Hache takes a call while volunteering at the NORAD Tracks Santa center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., Dec. 24, 2017. Credit: AP/Jerilee Bennett Realizing an ...

And so those satellites track (Santa) through that heat source.” NORAD has an app and website, www.noradsanta.org, that will track Santa on Christmas Eve from 4 a.m. to midnight, mountain ...