Girl Uses 11 Cars to Send Message to Astronaut Dad
The project was also used to advertise the Hyundai Genesis.
Stephanie, a 13-year-old girl from Houston just wanted to tell her dad she loved him — but there was a catch.
Her dad works in outer space as an astronaut. “He has to stay there for long periods of time so he’s gone a lot,’’ she said in a car commercial.
That’s where Hyundai came in. The car company decided to help the astronaut’s daughter (and advertise the 2015 Hyundai Genesis) by creating a message large enough to be seen from the International Space Station, where Stephanie’s father conducts experiments.
Using stunt drivers, Hyundai wrote a 59,808,480.26 square-foot message in the Delmar Dry Lake in Nevada saying “Steph <3’s You.’’ It broke the Guinness World Record for “largest tire track image.’’
“He’s seen so many amazing things up there, but I hope that this message was the most special,’’ Stephanie said, adding that her father probably took a picture of the message with his DSLR camera.
Here’s a video that shows how the January 18 project was done:
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