--- title: TIME's A Year in Space Nominated for 2017 Emmy Award description: The TIME and PBS special 'A Year in Space' has been nominated for a 2017 News & Documentary Emmy. canonical: https://time.com/4875406/time-pbs-year-in-space-emmy-nomination/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-26T20:35:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:44:49.833Z article:section: Press Room og:title: TIME and PBS Documentary 'A Year in Space' Nominated for Emmy Award og:description: It's in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category og:url: https://time.com/4875406/time-pbs-year-in-space-emmy-nomination/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb786d7802d6ee8dd/698862c92dce01493c9e56db/time-year-in-space1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: TIME-Year-in-Space og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME and PBS Documentary 'A Year in Space' Nominated for Emmy Award twitter:description: It's in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb786d7802d6ee8dd/698862c92dce01493c9e56db/time-year-in-space1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # TIME and PBS Documentary _A Year in Space_ Nominated for Emmy Award > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 26, 2017 8:35 PM UTC  by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 26, 2017 8:35 PM UTC _This is a company-wide memo from Time Inc CEO Rich Battista and Chief Content Officer Alan Murray._ We are pleased to announce that the TIME and PBS special _A Year in Space_ has been nominated for a2017 News & Documentary Emmy in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category—**our company’s first Emmy nomination in a traditional TV category**. This one-hour first installment of a two-part series aired in March 2016 on PBS and is adapted from TIME’s original digital video series about astronaut Scott Kelly, whose 12-month stay on the International Space Station tested human limits for space travel and laid the groundwork for a manned mission to Mars. Congratulations to Time Inc.’s **Ian Orefice**, **Kira Pollack**, **Jonathan Woods** and **Jeffrey Kluger** for their outstanding work on _A Year in Space_**.** We’d also like to recognize TIME Editor-in-Chief **Nancy Gibbs** and TIME Digital Editor **Edward Felsenthal** for their leadership and support of this project. Congratulations also to **Mike Beck**, **Jon Halperin**, **Shaul Schwarz**, **Mark Mannucci** and **Bill Margol**, who are nominated for this Emmy, as well. **_Read more:_** [_The Best Photographs From Scott Kelly’s Year In Space_](http://time.com/4242079/scott-kelly-best-photos/) The series’ second installment, _Beyond a Year in Space_, will air this fall on PBS. The original yearlong, 12-episode digital series of _A Year in Space_ launched in 2015 on [Time.com](http://time.com/). Other nominees in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category this year are: HBO Documentary Films’ _Ebola: The Doctor’s Story_; Netflix’s _Into the Inferno_; Netflix’s _My Beautiful Broken Brain_ and PBS’s _NOVA: Great Human Odyssey_. The 38th annual New & Documentary Emmy Awards will be announced on October 5 in New York. See a full list of nominees, which were announced yesterday, [here](http://emmyonline.com/newsemmy). Congratulations to everyone who contributed to _A Year in Space_, and best of luck in October. 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