This isn't exactly the most representative video from the NORAD Tracks Santa project, which puts St. Nick in a series of Google Earth panoramas and overlays official-sounding military reports of sightings of him on his journey around the world tonight. But I just realized that it's only a matter of time before our currently space-obsessed four-year-old asks me whether the crew of the International Space Station gets a visit from Santa or not, and now I have my answer.
Poke around the site here. NORAD also has audio recordings of the "Yes, Virginia" letters - the 1987 letter written to her local newspaper in 1897, and the letter the editors wrote back. We think that's pretty awesome. - Jeremiah
2008 was the first Christmas we used NORAD to track Santa, it was fun! We were at a Christmas Eve party with lots of kids, and they loved occasionally checking the computer to get the Santa updates. It was also helpful when we had to leave the party to point out that Santa was getting closer and “we better get home in time"… :)
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2008 was the first Christmas we used NORAD to track Santa, it was fun! We were at a Christmas Eve party with lots of kids, and they loved occasionally checking the computer to get the Santa updates. It was also helpful when we had to leave the party to point out that Santa was getting closer and “we better get home in time"… :)