China have only just started, haven't they..?

I thought you were going to tell me it was Joanna Newsom being dispatched to the outer reaches of the known universe.

happened last week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jonathanamos/2010/06/a-great-day...

...just the end of a phase.

Good picture - but the Bad Astronomer has a more impressive one at

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/11/diving-into-and-out-of-the-sky/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BadAstronomyBlog+(Bad+Astronomy)

1998, sadly not online but I think the caption (http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/30/us/glenn-returns-space-scene-countdown...) paints it for you, the boys are floating on their boards as the trail arcs overhead.

While many visitors jockeyed for spots to watch the space shuttle launching at Cape Canaveral yesterday, Donnie McBurney, left, and Chris Welch of Merritt Island, Fla., simply floated on their body boards. (Gregg Newton/Reuters)