--- title: Strawberry Moon: See Photos From the Space Station description: The full moon on the summer solstice, as seen by astronaut Jeff Williams canonical: https://time.com/4377127/strawberry-moon-space-station-photos/ author: Marisa Gertz article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-21T18:36:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:45:11.816Z article:section: Science og:title: See the Strawberry Moon from the International Space Station og:description: The full moon on the summer solstice, as seen by astronaut Jeff Williams og:url: https://time.com/4377127/strawberry-moon-space-station-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf7ab29995c5bf3e/698898d20a4a22d5479ca2bd/strawberry-moon-space.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: strawberry-moon-space og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See the Strawberry Moon from the International Space Station twitter:description: The full moon on the summer solstice, as seen by astronaut Jeff Williams twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf7ab29995c5bf3e/698898d20a4a22d5479ca2bd/strawberry-moon-space.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See the Strawberry Moon from the International Space Station by [Marisa Gertz](/author/marisa-gertz/) ## Marisa Gertz Jun 21, 2016 6:36 PM CUT  Jeff Williams—NASA by [Marisa Gertz](/author/marisa-gertz/) ## Marisa Gertz Jun 21, 2016 6:36 PM CUT Astronaut [Jeff Williams](http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/space-station-view-of-the-full-moon "undefined") of NASA captured an image of the rare strawberry moon from the International Space Station. “A spectacular rise of the full moon just before sunset while flying over western China,” he wrote. For the first time in nearly 70 years, the [full moon](http://time.com/3479189/blood-moon/?iid=sr-link4 "undefined") rose on the same day as the [summer solstice](http://time.com/3928453/summer-solstice-2015/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined"). The last time this event occurred [it was 1948](http://time.com/4372889/watch-live-full-moon-summer-solstice/ "undefined") and Harry S. Truman was president. According to the [Farmer’s Almanac](http://farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names/ "undefined"), the name for this moon comes from the Algonquin tribe and refers to the short strawberry harvesting season that comes each year during the month of June. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4377127/strawberry-moon-space-station-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4377127/strawberry-moon-space-station-photos/"},"headline":"See the Strawberry Moon from the International Space Station","datePublished":"2016-06-21T18:36:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:45:11.816Z","description":"The full moon on the summer solstice, as seen by astronaut Jeff Williams","url":"https://time.com/4377127/strawberry-moon-space-station-photos/","keywords":["Space","NASA","Science topic","Astronaut","iss","one-pic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf7ab29995c5bf3e/698898d20a4a22d5479ca2bd/strawberry-moon-space.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Marisa Gertz","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/marisa-gertz/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf7ab29995c5bf3e/698898d20a4a22d5479ca2bd/strawberry-moon-space.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"strawberry-moon-space","caption":"strawberry moon from space","creditText":"Jeff Williams—NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4377127/strawberry-moon-space-station-photos/","name":"See the Strawberry Moon from the International Space Station"}}]}] ```