--- title: Year in Space: Scott Kelly's Daughter Writes About Him on Father's Day description: The 11-year-old daughter of Astronaut Scott Kelly writes about how she celebrated Father's Day with him, despite the distance. canonical: https://time.com/3929586/scott-kelly-charlotte-kelly-fathers-day-space/ author: Charlotte Kelly article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-21T19:20:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:51.120Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Charlotte Kelly: Thinking of My Dad in Outer Space og:description: The 11-year-old daughter of Astronaut Scott Kelly on how she celebrated Father's Day og:url: https://time.com/3929586/scott-kelly-charlotte-kelly-fathers-day-space/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf65d0ae1a2c8a32a/6987ee88cd1bba4a226f9514/150505_charlotte_tout.jpg?branch=production&width=462&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 462 og:image:height: 260 og:image:alt: 150505_charlotte_tout og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Charlotte Kelly: Thinking of My Dad in Outer Space twitter:description: The 11-year-old daughter of Astronaut Scott Kelly on how she celebrated Father's Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf65d0ae1a2c8a32a/6987ee88cd1bba4a226f9514/150505_charlotte_tout.jpg?branch=production&width=462&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Charlotte Kelly: Thinking of My Dad in Space > Sponsored content. 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Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel._ by [Charlotte Kelly](https://time.com/author/charlotte-kelly/) ## Charlotte Kelly Jun 21, 2015 7:20 PM UTC  Scott Kelly and Charlotte Kelly Scott Kelly and Charlotte Kelly Courtesy Virginia Beach City Public Schools by [Charlotte Kelly](https://time.com/author/charlotte-kelly/) ## Charlotte Kelly Jun 21, 2015 7:20 PM UTC I am on summer break from school right now, but before school ended, my dad was able to set up a video conference with my class. All of the kids really enjoyed seeing him and asking him questions about space. I don’t care how many times I see it, I still have to laugh when I see him flip around in zero gravity and eat floating M&M’s. Two nights ago, my mom and I went to a beach party with my classmate Joe and his family. Just around 9:10 p.m., we were all able to look into the night sky and see the International Space Station fly over. It looked like a bright star just moving across the sky. For those four minutes we were all watching, I couldn’t help but miss my dad. Today is Father’s Day. My sister and I were able to do a video conference with our dad at the same time. She was in Houston, I was in Virginia Beach and my dad was flying over us! Really! He was actually flying over us. He put his video monitor in his window and took a picture of us with Virginia Beach in the background. TIME will be covering Kelly’s mission in the new series, [A Year In Space](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/). 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