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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 Oct 6, 2017 3:40 PM UTC  by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Oct 6, 2017 3:40 PM UTC _This is a company-wide memo from Time Inc CEO Rich Battista and Chief Content Officer Alan Murray._ We are thrilled to share the news that the TIME and PBS special _A Year in Space_ has won the 2017 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category. The 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. The second installment, _Beyond a Year in Space_, airs in November on PBS. The 38th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards were announced last night in New York. Other nominees in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category were: HBO Documentary Films’ _Ebola: The Doctor’s Story_; Netflix’s _Into the Inferno_ and _My Beautiful Broken Brain_ and PBS’s _NOVA: Great Human Odyssey_. _A Year in Space_ showsthe incredible momentum of Time Inc. Studios and how our innovative ideas can turn into expansive and award-winning enterprises. The original yearlong, Primetime Emmy-nominated digital series of _A Year in Space_ launched in 2015 on [TIME.com](http://time.com/). We’d like to recognize Time Inc.’s **Ian Orefice, Kira Pollack, Jonathan Woods** and **Jeffrey Kluger** for the win and their outstanding work on _A Year in Space_. Thanks to **Edward Felsenthal** and**Nancy Gibbs**for their support of this project. We congratulate **Mike Beck, Jon Halperin, Shaul Schwarz, Mark Mannucci** and **Bill Margol**, who are all winners of this Emmy, as well. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this exciting Emmy win for _A Year in Space_. 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