Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008	Climate Time Machine
Nasa and the JPL have created a climate time machine to quickly explain to policy makers the effects of climate change. Because everybody is affected by the weather, it seems like everybody likes to improvise themselves a climate scientist. Amateur theories about global warming are a...... [view]

Posted By:  youth2day Posted On:  May 14, 2008	Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!
Yes, it is so impressive to leave your name go in orbit around the moon for years!! NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft. The Send Your Name to...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  Feb 28, 2008	Students Conceive of Plan to Protect Earth from Space
NASA asked researchers to look into what to do if an asteroid targeted earth. Some enterprising students have decided that gravity is the most efficient (and cheapest) way to deflect big rocks from destroying our small planet. What’s more is that the students have designed their device...... [view]

Posted By:  tim846 Posted On:  Nov 26, 2007	Americans overestimate NASA budget
A new study from Dittmar Associates reveals that most Americans believe that NASA received almost 25% of the federal budget (about $ 650 billion). Compare this to the actual NASA budget of only about $ 16 billion! What causes this huge misjudgment? What can--or should --NASA do to...... [view]

Posted By:  tim846 Posted On:  Oct 26, 2007	2007 X PRIZE Cup begins!
The 2007 X PRIZE Cup kicks off today at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, NM! This year the X PRIZE Foundation has teamed up with the Holloman air show to have a joint "Air & Space Expo" instead of two separate events. One of the signature events at the Air & Space Expo...... [view]

Posted By:  tim846 Posted On:  Oct 23, 2007	STS-120 prepares for launch!
Space Shuttle Mission STS-120 is all fueled and waiting for launch! The Space Task Force has been busy working on the World Space Expo (coming up in only 9 days!) but we are taking a break to watch this amazing launch. We'll give you a quick update later today to discuss the launch and...... [view]

Posted By:  tim846 Posted On:  Apr 12, 2007	Yuri's Night
Let's Go!" These were the words spoken by Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin as he embarked on the historic first manned space flight on 12 April 1961. Twenty years later on 12 April 1981, the US launched the first space shuttle flight. Every year on April 12th Yuri's Night is celebrated...... [view]

Posted By:  tim846 Posted On:  Apr 20, 2007	Another show in the can...
A new message from the Space Task Force is just around the corner. Should be up later today.... [view]