--- title: Watch the Premiere of TIME’s ‘A Year in Space’ description: Episode 1: Leaving Home Astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to family and friends as he leaves to become the first American to spend a year... canonical: https://time.com/3949309/a-year-in-space-premiere/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-08T14:03:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:03:06.854Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch the Premiere of TIME’s ‘A Year in Space’ og:description: Episode 1: Leaving Home Astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to family and friends as he leaves to become the first American to spend a year... og:url: https://time.com/3949309/a-year-in-space-premiere/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee0a593f221613b/698859f03c1639567e458b87/150703-0512342.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: A Year in Space og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Premiere of TIME’s ‘A Year in Space’ twitter:description: Episode 1: Leaving Home Astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to family and friends as he leaves to become the first American to spend a year... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee0a593f221613b/698859f03c1639567e458b87/150703-0512342.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Premiere of TIME’s ‘A Year in Space’ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 8, 2015 2:03 PM CUT  TIME TIME by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 8, 2015 2:03 PM CUT [**Episode 1: Leaving Home**](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/1%5F1/ "undefined") Astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to family and friends as he leaves to become the first American to spend a year in space. [**Episode 2: Unlikely Allies**](http://time.com/space-nasa-scott-kelly-mission/1%5F2/ "undefined") Before leaving earth, astronaut Scott Kelly heads to a once secret space center outside Moscow that is now the scene of an unprecedented collaboration between former enemies ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3949309/a-year-in-space-premiere/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3949309/a-year-in-space-premiere/"},"headline":"Watch the Premiere of TIME’s ‘A Year in Space’","datePublished":"2015-07-08T14:03:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:03:06.854Z","description":"Episode 1: Leaving Home Astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to family and friends as he leaves to become the first American to spend a year...","url":"https://time.com/3949309/a-year-in-space-premiere/","keywords":["Space","NASA","scott kelly","A Year In Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee0a593f221613b/698859f03c1639567e458b87/150703-0512342.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee0a593f221613b/698859f03c1639567e458b87/150703-0512342.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A Year in Space","caption":"TIME","creditText":"","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/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3949309/a-year-in-space-premiere/","name":"Watch the Premiere of TIME’s ‘A Year in Space’"}}]}] ```