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NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock has been honoured for his contribution to the Twitterverse with a Shorty Award for the "best Real-Time Photo of the Year". Flight engineer Wheelock arrived aboard the International Space Station in June last year, and shortly after posted this fine snap on his Twitter account: Doug Wheelock's …

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  1. Gulfie

    That is just awesome...

    Such a beautiful photo, and it conveys so much about what it must be like to be in space, it has much more impact than any of the usual stuff Nasa releases - no tech in sight, no sight of the Earth, just the moon and that beautiful shading...

    Words fail me...

  2. Marvin the Martian
    Badgers

    Moon, schmoon

    A bare rock that's been hanging there for some 5billion years you say, award-winning real time social media content I say.

  3. Ian McNee
    Badgers

    Great snap...

    ...shame about the pointless social media twat-splat platform :-)

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    as a pro photographer

    as a pro photographer i would love to have such an absorbing photograph in my portfolio.

    stunning

    mines the one with the camera in the pocket....

  5. Ian Halstead
    Grenade

    Sue him now.

    Rip off of your 'Paris - Graphic Revelations' box ad image. That is your logo projected onto the moon isn't it?

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