Looks like Monday's hail storm will keep the most recent space shuttle flight from launching. The hail actually made divots in the shuttle's fuel tank. NASA wants to check out if the divots are dangerous to flight.

The Russians plan to launch a  Soyuz vehicle to visit the International Space Station at the end of March, so the American shuttle needs to launch soon in order to maintain the Russian's schedule.

Have you played the hangman games we run? We just added a new one for to have fun with. Test out your St. Patty's Day vocabulary with the St. Patrick's Day Hangman Game.

Are you a writer? People your age have been published, for real.

One of the first we know about is Francis Hawkins. In 1641, when he was 8 years old, he wrote a book of manners for children called Youth Behavior.

Three new games just went up.

Black History Month Quiz

Valentine's Heart Slider

Blue Earth Jigsaw

Enjoy!! 

Test your space knowledge: 

How far have spacecraft from Earth traveled into space?

Well over 10 Light-years 
A bit less than one Light-year 
Somewhat less than one Light-day

For the answer and more questions, take the Space Quiz. 

The study of Angels. Interested? Here is some angel trivia.

1. Archangel Gabriel, is described as having 140 pairs of wings!

2. Angel fever peaked in the 13th century, when angels were thought to move the stars and govern the planets, seasons, months, days, and hours.

3. Angel wings, as painted by the great artists, were modeled after large and beautiful birds such as eagles and swans.

I used always get sports teams mixed up. The Lakers play basketball in Los Angeles? Are there lakes in LA? Well, it turns out that the team started in Minnesota, land of a thousand lakes. Other interesting name origins:

Baltimore Ravens (football)—The clear winner of a Baltimore Sun telephone poll in 1996, the name is borrowed from a well-known poem by Baltimore native Edgar Allan Poe.

Here's another fun game that Karl made for us. It's sort of like tic tac toe, but a bit harder. Take a shot at Chain Reaction. I strongly recommend that you read the directions first. I couldn't figure it out till I did! Good luck.

There have been some mean, nasty people ruling countries over the years. Do you know what Soviet dictator sent hundreds of thousands of Russians to Siberian slave labor camps?

If you think you know and would like to test your knowledge of other bad guys in history, take the Villains in History quiz.

In 1628, William Harvey publishes An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals, describing how blood is pumped throughout the body by the heart, and then returns to the heart and recirculates. The book is very controversial but becomes the basis for modern research on the heart and blood vessels.