A bus exits the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, on Cheyenne Mountain. The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it is virtually closing the secretive defense complex .

The Cheyenne Mountain complex was begun in 1961 and completed in 1966. It consists of 15 buildings (some resting on springs to minimize blast effects) in a 4 1/2 acre cavern that was bored out of the granite mountain. It became a fabled location in movies about Cold War confrontations with the old Soviet Union.
NORAD is not the sole tenant inside the mountain complex, though. Air Force Space Command - which monitors everything flying in space - is also housed there, but is looking at moving its central headquarters to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the Air Force’s premier missile-launch base.

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