Real-Time Photo of the Year: "Moon from Space"

“Don’t tell me that the sky is the limit, when there are footprints on the moon…” Sure looks beautiful setting behind our blue planet, maybe one day we’ll be daring enough to go back - Douglas H. Wheelock

NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock was honored with a Shorty Award for an image of the moon he took and posted to his Twitter account, @Astro_Wheels, while living aboard the International Space Station last year. The awards ceremony was held at the TimesCenter in New York City on Monday, March 28.

Read the story at SpaceRef.com, HERE.

"Moon from Space," by astronaut Douglas Wheelock, International Space Station, June 22, 2010.