--- description: A Texas 13-year-old named Stephanie has a father with a particularly challenging commute—he works in the International Space Station. title: Daughter Wrote Astronaut Dad a Note He Can Read From Space image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb68a31a6f4e1b402/6987eafccd1bba59486f8eff/screen-shot-2015-04-14-at-1-27-12-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Daughter Wrote Astronaut Dad a Sweet Note He Can Read From Space by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 14, 2015 6:07 PM CUT  by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 14, 2015 6:07 PM CUT Many parents travel for work, but a Texas 13-year-old named Stephanie has a father with a particularly challenging commute—he works in the International Space Station. And so, to let her Dad—who ABC [reports](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/astronaut-sweet-message-space/story?id=30303097 "undefined") is probably Expedition 43 commander Terry Virts—know how much she misses him, Stephanie decided to write him a very, very large note that he could read from space. “It might make him miss us even more, or miss Earth,” Stephanie said in [Hyundai’s latest ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOAXrTrsOE "undefined"). Since it would be nearly impossible for Stephanie to scrawl a note that’s big enough for her Dad to read, the car company deployed a fleet of 11 Hyundai Genesises to write a 5.5 square km note in Nevada’s Delamar Dry Lake. That’s one and a half times the size of New York’s Central Park. Stephanie’s astronaut father got the message, according to Hyundai. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3821463/daughter-astronaut-dad-note-read-space/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3821463/daughter-astronaut-dad-note-read-space/"},"headline":"Daughter Wrote Astronaut Dad a Sweet Note He Can Read From Space","datePublished":"2015-04-14T18:07:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:44.322Z","description":"All with the help of 11 Hyundais","url":"https://time.com/3821463/daughter-astronaut-dad-note-read-space/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Space","viral","Family","relationships","Business topic","A Year In Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb68a31a6f4e1b402/6987eafccd1bba59486f8eff/screen-shot-2015-04-14-at-1-27-12-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb68a31a6f4e1b402/6987eafccd1bba59486f8eff/screen-shot-2015-04-14-at-1-27-12-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-04-14 at 1.27.12 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3821463/daughter-astronaut-dad-note-read-space/","name":"Daughter Wrote Astronaut Dad a Sweet Note He Can Read From Space"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Year in Space: The Mission","description":"On March 28, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins a historic year in Space. Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/gEqrnCPI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-03-24T14:30:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gEqrnCPI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3821463/daughter-astronaut-dad-note-read-space/","duration":"PT3M59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3821463/daughter-astronaut-dad-note-read-space/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```