--- title: TIME Wins Emmy for PBS Special "A Year in Space" description: The TIME and PBS special 'A Year in Space' has won the 2017 News & Documentary Emmy Award. canonical: https://time.com/4972350/time-year-in-space-emmy-award/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-06T15:40:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-25T08:47:53.159Z article:section: Press Room og:title: TIME and PBS Documentary 'A Year in Space' Wins Emmy Award og:description: It was in the Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category og:url: https://time.com/4972350/time-year-in-space-emmy-award/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb786d7802d6ee8dd/698862c92dce01493c9e56db/time-year-in-space1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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' Wins Emmy Award twitter:description: It was 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # TIME Wins 2017 News & Documentary Emmy Award for PBS Special _A Year in Space_ 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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