Charlotte Kelly Thinking of My Dad in Space
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 MM's. Two nights ago, my mom and I went to a beach party with my classmate Joe and his family. Just around 910 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. Watch the trailer here.