Ive been noticing a pattern of water\Atlantis\Neptune out there in the last few months. For example:
From MSNBC
February 07, 2010 01:26 PM EST
2010 Super Bowl has coin from Space Shuttle ATLANTIS: It's a coin toss from outer space!
The 2010 Super Bowl coin, a special token of respect that is used exclusively for the NFL Super Bowl has an interesting history this year. The Space Shuttle Atlantis delivered a coin that traveled into space on the last trip up for use as the official coin for the coin toss.
This unique contribution not only pays respect to the NASA space program, but also delivers something unique to Florida and the Kennedy Space Center to the public spotlight.
When they scream heads or tails, there is no doubt it will be all eyes watching on this unique coin that was carried into space!
Or this:
Looking to buy a Space Shuttle? NASA is having a HUGE January sale!
Looking to buy one of NASA's dilapidated Space Shuttles? Then you're in luck, as the government-controlled space organization has knocked off nearly 30-percent of the original asking price, reducing the price of Atlantis or Endeavour from a meaty $42 million to just a mere $28.2 million. That's not a bad deal considering the crafts' current, near-retirement condition.
However, for those you who had their hearts set on the Discovery, that sale will never happen: its hand was promised to the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum, and will probably be parked at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport (thanks balister). The Discovery, during its long tenure with NASA, completed 37 missions and ventured around 5,247 orbits.
According to the Telegraph, NASA is also considering pulling the Enterprise off its dusty shelf of collectibles and offering it for sale. The Enterprise was NASA's original prototype for the Space Shuttle fleet, and was not equipped with the technology needed for space flight. The Enterprise flew various test runs between February and October 1977, and was named after the Star Trek Federation flagship, the Enterprise. This craft alone may actually be worth more than any other Shuttle NASA has produced.
NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle fleet this year, however the organization decided to put these two Shuttles up for sale early. The new Ares 1-X rocket--set to continue manned space exploration in 2015--will eventually replace the fleet
And This:
Astronaut Dedicates Flag Flown in Space to 9/11 Victims
NEW YORK – An astronaut from New York returned home Thursday to dedicate an American flag flown on the space shuttle to the victims of Sept. 11.
NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who has flown twice on the shuttle to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, presented the flag to the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum under construction at the ground zero site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The flag was flown on Massimino's STS-125 mission of the shuttle Atlantis in May 2009.
"We flew an American flag on our flight - it's pretty customary to do that," he said. "I'm a New Yorker... The idea I had was to give it to the city of New York to honor the Sept. 11 victims."
Massimino said his six crewmates readily agreed. The astronaut, who now lives in Houston near NASA's Johnson Space Center, spoke at an event in New York City to preview preliminary footage from the Hubble 3D IMAX film, set to premiere March 19, which will chronicle their trip to the space telescope last year.
The newly-dedicated flag is on temporary display at the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site. Plans call for the museum to be completed by Sept. 11, 2011.
"This morning I got to return it down to the World Trade Center site," Massimino said. "As of today, that's on display down there."
This flag is the second that Massimino has donated in honor of Sept. 11. In August 2009 he presented another American flag flown to Hubble in honor of firefighters who died that day, and their families. The astronaut's late father was a New York Fire Department fire inspector.
Also This recent news:
Lost city of Atlantis 'could be buried in southern Spain'
Archaeologists have begun the search for an ancient civilization in southern Spain that some believe
could help pinpoint the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
By Fiona Govan in Madrid
Published: 6:00AM GMT 19 Jan 2010
A team of researchers from Spain's Higher Council for Scientific Study (CSIC) are examining a marshy area of Andalusian
parkland to find evidence of a 3,000-year-old settlement.
They believe that Tartessos, a wealthy civilization in southern Iberia that predates the Phoenicians, may have had its
capital in the heart of what is now the Donana national park.
Until now historians had dismissed the region as a possible site believing that it had been submerged since the ice age.
But it is claimed new evidence suggests the waters may have receded in time for the Tartessians to build an urban
centre, which was later destroyed in a tsunami.
The Hinojos marshes, an area close to the mouth of the Guadalquiver river where it meets the Atlantic, have now been
pinpointed as the site most likely to provide evidence of a lost city.
Archaeological findings have already proved the existence of Tartessian culture at sites on the opposite bank of the river.
"If they existed on the other side, they must also have been here (in Donana)," Sebastian Celestino, the archaeologist
leading the project told the newspaper El Pais.
"There were earthquakes and one of them caused a tsunami that razed everything and which coincided with the era in
which Tartessian power was at its height."
Aerial photos show the existence of large circular and rectangular forms that could not have been produced by nature.
The images, together with literary accounts by ancient Greek geographers have given weight to the theory that a great
Lost city of Atlantis 'could be buried in southern Spain' - Telegraph
Tartessian city once existed within the park.
The Tartessian civilization, which developed in southern Spain between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and became rich
trading gold and silver from local mines, has long been linked by mythologists to the Atlantis legend.
While the Spanish researchers refuse to speculate on whether they are on the brink of discovering Atlantis others believe
their research could be a breakthrough in a centuries old quest.
"Evidence is mounting that suggests the story of Atlantis was not mere fiction, fable or myth, but a true story as Plato
always maintained," said Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, a Cuban archeologist who has spent the last 15 years searching for
the submerged city.
"Atlantis is not exactly where the CSIC is looking, but it is close," he claimed.
The theory is just the latest in a long list of suggested locations for Atlantis, including various Mediterranean islands, the
Azores, the Sahara desert, Central America and Antarctica.
And this even:
KU butterflies make it to outer space - KansasCity.com
Dogs, rats, even fruit flies have traveled to outer space, and now the University of Kansas has sent the monarch butterfly into the cosmos.
When space shuttle ATLANTIS blasted off in November, three monarch caterpillars from KU were aboard for the trip to the international space station, the first of their species in space.
Monarch Watch, a KU-based network, provided the caterpillars and a special artificial diet. For more than 25 days, the caterpillars molted, pupated, emerged and finally expired in an experimental habitat, influenced by microgravity at every stage. Researchers say they were “strongly affected” by a weightless environment.
"Valleys of Neptune" release 3\9\10
Though there have been many posthumous releases from Jimi Hendrix's archives since his tragic death, the recently-announced 'Valleys of Neptune' isn't meant to be a "lost" album. Rather, it's a look at the creative period in Hendrix's life between the 1968 release of 'Electric Ladyland' and his legendary appearance at Woodstock the following summer.
