--- description: The 11-year-old daughter of Astronaut Scott Kelly writes about how she celebrated Father's Day with him, despite the distance. title: Charlotte Kelly: Thinking of My Dad in Outer Space image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf65d0ae1a2c8a32a/6987ee88cd1bba4a226f9514/150505_charlotte_tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Space](/tag/space/) ## Space Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Charlotte Kelly: Thinking of My Dad in Space by [Charlotte Kelly](/author/charlotte-kelly/) ## Charlotte Kelly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2015 7:20 PM CUT  Scott Kelly and Charlotte Kelly Scott Kelly and Charlotte KellyCourtesy Virginia Beach City Public Schools by [Charlotte Kelly](/author/charlotte-kelly/) ## Charlotte Kelly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 21, 2015 7:20 PM CUT 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/ "undefined"). 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