Season 1
12 episodes · 2016
Astronaut Scott Kelly's record-breaking year in space -- from launch to landing.
1Leaving Home
Astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to family and friends as he leaves to become the first American to spend a year in space.
2Unlikely Allies
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.
3Quarantine
Scott Kelly begins his long separation from the rest of humanity well before he leaves Earth, as he and his crewmates enter the curious world of pre-flight quarantine
4Launch
The final hours on Earth are a series of rituals—both technological and personal—as the clock ticks down and the engines ignite.
5Welcome Aboard
Watch NASA astronaut Scott Kelly board the International Space Station and adjust to life in space.
6Perseverance
Danger lurks both on the ground and in orbit as the crew deals with exploding supply rockets and incoming space debris.
7A Walk In The Abyss
Fixing the space station can mean venturing outside—no easy feat 250 miles away from Earth.
8Connectivity
So much rides on the slender thread that connects astronauts in space to family on Earth.
9Last Days In Space
Packing to leave can be bittersweet after a year in space.
10Ride Of A Lifetime
Returning from the ISS is a wild, scary, violent ride—but it’s the only way home.
11Gravity
By air and land, rescue vehicles converge in the Kazakh steppe to catch three men falling from space.
12Welcome Homefinale
After a year in space, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko reunite with their families and begin the long, painful process of readjusting to life on Earth.
