--- title: Scott Kelly Memoir Will Take Readers on a Year in Space description: The NASA astronaut will detail his time on the International Space Station canonical: https://time.com/4283896/scott-kelly-year-space-memoir/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-06T17:10:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:30:46.784Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Scott Kelly Will Take Readers Along for a Year in Space in New Memoir og:description: The NASA astronaut will detail his time on the International Space Station og:url: https://time.com/4283896/scott-kelly-year-space-memoir/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9619a452c6f3308/69888dff0b72e392c16e8d70/scott-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3884 og:image:height: 2185 og:image:alt: scott-kelly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Scott Kelly Will Take Readers Along for a Year in Space in New Memoir twitter:description: The NASA astronaut will detail his time on the International Space Station twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9619a452c6f3308/69888dff0b72e392c16e8d70/scott-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scott Kelly Will Take Readers Along for a Year in Space in New Memoir > Sponsored content. 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Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA rest in a chair outside of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Bill Ingalls—NASA/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Apr 6, 2016 5:10 PM UTC Readers who want to know exactly what it would be like to spend a year in space will get the chance to find out in NASA astronaut [Scott Kelly’](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/)s forthcoming memoir, announced by Knopf on Wednesday. The book, _Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars_, will detail Kelly’s 340 days on the International Space Station, chronicling everything from the extreme impact on his body to his belief in the importance of space exploration. **Read more:** [Scott Kelly’s Year in Space](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/) “There are few aspects of everyday life that aren’t touched by the technologies developed for space travel,” Kelly writes, “but these innovations aren’t the only benefits of spaceflight…The superhuman accomplishment of innovation, perseverance, and cooperation carried out by thousands of Americans working towards one audacious goal speaks for itself.” _Endurance_ will be published in November 2017. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4283896/scott-kelly-year-space-memoir/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4283896/scott-kelly-year-space-memoir/"},"headline":"Scott Kelly Will Take Readers Along for a Year in Space in New Memoir","datePublished":"2016-04-06T17:10:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:30:46.784Z","description":"The NASA astronaut will detail his time on the International Space Station","url":"https://time.com/4283896/scott-kelly-year-space-memoir/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9619a452c6f3308/69888dff0b72e392c16e8d70/scott-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9619a452c6f3308/69888dff0b72e392c16e8d70/scott-kelly.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"scott-kelly","caption":"Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA rest in a chair outside of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhs","creditText":"Bill Ingalls—NASA/Getty Images","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/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4283896/scott-kelly-year-space-memoir/","name":"Scott Kelly Will Take Readers Along for a Year in Space in New Memoir"}}]}] ```