--- title: Astronaut's Daughter: Celebrating the Holidays With My Dad description: We video-conferenced on Thanksgiving canonical: https://time.com/4132382/astronauts-daughter-celebrating-the-holidays-with-my-dad/ author: Charlotte Kelly article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-02T14:44:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:02:02.992Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Astronaut's Daughter: Celebrating the Holidays With My Dad og:description: We video-conferenced on Thanksgiving og:url: https://time.com/4132382/astronauts-daughter-celebrating-the-holidays-with-my-dad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa94f9c181a1e036/69887366bc6cfc41e43da9ef/scott-kelly-crew-quarters-family-video-conference.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: scott kelly crew quarters family video conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Astronaut's Daughter: Celebrating the Holidays With My Dad twitter:description: We video-conferenced on Thanksgiving twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa94f9c181a1e036/69887366bc6cfc41e43da9ef/scott-kelly-crew-quarters-family-video-conference.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Astronaut's Daughter: Celebrating the Holidays With My Dad by [Charlotte Kelly](https://time.com/author/charlotte-kelly/) ## Charlotte Kelly Dec 2, 2015 2:44 PM UTC  A soccer ball floats in weightlessness inside Astronaut Scott Kelly's crew quarters during a family video conference aboard the International Space Station in November. A soccer ball floats in weightlessness inside Astronaut Scott Kelly's crew quarters during a family video conference aboard the International Space Station in November.Scott Kelly—NASA by [Charlotte Kelly](https://time.com/author/charlotte-kelly/) ## Charlotte Kelly Dec 2, 2015 2:44 PM UTC Since I [last checked in](http://time.com/4041315/astronaut-kellys-daughter-my-dad-is-out-of-this-world/), my dad has done a video conference with my class at school, and we have celebrated Thanksgiving. My classmates were very thrilled to be able to speak to an astronaut aboard the space station. I must admit, they asked some pretty interesting question, and, just as I expected, laughed loudly when he performed his zero-gravity tricks, such as flipping upside down while spinning and playing with his food. I wish he would have let me play with my food when I was younger! Our Thanksgiving was very low-key. My mom and I celebrated with some friends from Japan, as well as a few others. Before dinner, I had a video conference with my dad, and he met my friends and classmate. He was even able to introduce them to the Japanese astronaut on board with him. This will be a short month as we prepare for the holidays. _Star Wars_ will come out soon, and I can’t wait for my dad to get his Christmas gift! _TIME is producing a series of documentary films about Scott Kelly’s record-breaking mission in space._ [_Watch them here_](http://time.com/space)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4132382/astronauts-daughter-celebrating-the-holidays-with-my-dad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4132382/astronauts-daughter-celebrating-the-holidays-with-my-dad/"},"headline":"Astronaut's Daughter: Celebrating the Holidays With My Dad","datePublished":"2015-12-02T14:44:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:02:02.992Z","description":"We video-conferenced on Thanksgiving","url":"https://time.com/4132382/astronauts-daughter-celebrating-the-holidays-with-my-dad/","keywords":["Space","NASA","Astronaut","iss","space station"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa94f9c181a1e036/69887366bc6cfc41e43da9ef/scott-kelly-crew-quarters-family-video-conference.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Kelly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-kelly/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa94f9c181a1e036/69887366bc6cfc41e43da9ef/scott-kelly-crew-quarters-family-video-conference.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"scott kelly crew quarters family video conference","caption":"A soccer ball floats in weightlessness inside Astronaut Scott Kelly's crew quarters during a family video conference aboard the International Space Station in November.","creditText":"Scott Kelly—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/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4132382/astronauts-daughter-celebrating-the-holidays-with-my-dad/","name":"Astronaut's Daughter: Celebrating the Holidays With My Dad"}}]}] ```