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You might have thought Black Friday marked the end of the holiday deals season, but Walmart has other plans.

Starting this Saturday (Dec. 5th), at 8 AM, Walmart will be offering a $50 gift card with every Wii purchase, bringing the effective price of the console down to just $149.99 -- and that's easily the best deal on a Wii we've ever seen.

The deal will last until December 12, or while supplies last. Good luck with that "while supplies last" thing: we'd guess that to be certain of a Wii deal you'll want to be there first thing on Saturday morning.

Looking for a Wii game to spend that $50 on? Sure you are. Although it comes with Wii Sports, most owners will want a little more variety. Fortunately, we've got you covered: check out the Wii section of our 2009 Holiday Gift Guide for recommendations that'll suit every taste.

Fans of other consoles (or those shopping for them) aren't left out in the cold, either. Walmart's also trimming between $10 and $20 from many of the year's top games -- including Dragon Age: Origins, Madden 10, Halo 3: ODST, and Uncharted 2.

The space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station are separately flying around the Earth until Friday, and they can be seen as a pair of bright lights in the sky at certain times over the next few days.

Weather permitting, the orbiting objects should be visible to the naked eye throughout the United States and Canada, according to SpaceWeather.com. It's a special opportunity to see the two largest man-made objects in the sky at once.

Atlantis undocked from the space station early Wednesday, ending a week-long stay to supply the outpost with spare parts. The shuttle is scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Friday morning at 9:44 a.m. EST (1444 GMT).

Seeing a satellite from Earth isn't that rare: The myriad communications satellites flying around Earth regularly appear at night as stars that look to be transiting across the heavens. But the shuttle and station are both larger than any other vehicle in orbit, and should appear much brighter than the average satellite.

On a good night, the station approaches magnitude -5 in brightness, which rivals the planet Venus and is more than 25 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky.