Inside Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station as NORAD turns 60
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NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command, moved its headquarters out of the top secret bunker 10 years ago, but the complex inside the mountain is still operational. Crews typically use the space a few days out of the month to keep the facility maintained.
15 buildings sit beneath 2,000 feet of solid granite inside the mountain. Each one is made out of Navy-grade steel and sits on giant steel springs. The Cheyenne Mountain complex was first designed in the 1960's to withstand a nuclear blast. The Deputy Director for Cheyenne Mountain Steve Rose says the engineering has withstood the test of time....
...NORAD watches every single aircraft in North American airspace. The command center flags an average of 3 aircrafts a week. On Wednesday night, a belligerent passenger on a flight from Halifax to Calgary forced an airplane to divert to Toronto at the same time a serious of missile launches went off in the Middle East.
“Those were two simultaneous events where we were protecting North American airspace and we were determining if these missiles that were launched out of the Middle East were coming to America," said Col. Morehen....
