Santa trades sleigh for jet in NASA video
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NASA's Johnson Space Center recently had Santa go for a ride in a T-38 jet ahead of delivering gifts to boys and girls across the world Christmas Eve.
The two-engine jet can reach speeds as high as Mach 1.2, fly to heights of 50,000 feet and is used for aerobatic maneuvers to help astronauts become adjusted to unusual altitudes they will experience in space shuttles, according to NASA.
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas is traditionally "tracked" by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, which is "a bi-national United States and Canadian organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America," its website states.
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