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Home / News / World News / Lone astronaut casts vote before US election
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    Lone astronaut casts vote before US election

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    Last updated on Nov 08, 2016, 08:41 pm
    Lone astronaut casts vote before US election
  • According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) agency, Shane Kimbrough, the lone American astronaut in space has already cast his vote for the upcoming elections.

    Kimbrough, filed his absentee ballot from the International Space Station sometime over the last few days.

    NASA did not reveal details as to how the vote was transmitted.

    Kimbrough had been launched into space on October 19th.

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    Voting from space Space voting! Shane Kimbrough Lone astronaut casts vote before US election "Vote while you Float" How does the voting work? Votes from space yet millions on Earth won't vote
  • About

    Voting from space

    Voting from space
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  • Since 1997, Texas state laws have allowed astronauts, many of whom reside in Houston, Texas, the right-to-vote when on a space mission.

    If astronauts want to vote from space in an election scheduled during the mission, the process is set in motion a year before mission-launch.

    Astronauts must indicate a year prior which election - federal, state, local - they'd like to participate in.

  • Do you know?

    Space voting!

  • David Wolf, was the first ever American to vote from space; he cast his ballot for a local election from the Russian space station, Mir in 1997.

  • Who

    Shane Kimbrough

    Shane Kimbrough
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  • Shane Kimbrough, 49-years-old, is currently the only American astronaut in the International Space Station (ISS); he rode a Russian Soyuz rocket to the ISS on October 19, 2016.

    Kimbrough is on a four-month-mission at the research outpost and is accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts.

    The mission crew will double in a week's time with the arrival of another American, a Russian and a Frenchman.

  • 08 Nov 2016

    Lone astronaut casts vote before US election

    Lone astronaut casts vote before US election
  • According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) agency, Shane Kimbrough, the lone American astronaut in space has already cast his vote for the upcoming elections.

    Kimbrough, filed his absentee ballot from the International Space Station sometime over the last few days.

    NASA did not reveal details as to how the vote was transmitted.

    Kimbrough had been launched into space on October 19th.

  • Quote

    "Vote while you Float"

  • Shane Kimbrough followed NASA's motto of 'Vote while you Float' by casting his vote for the US Elections 2016. Before leaving Earth, Kimbrough had told reporters that he was "pretty much apolitical" but looked forward to be able to say that "I voted from space."

  • Steps

    How does the voting work?

    How does the voting work?
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  • Most astronauts live in Texas's largest city, Houston, that's home to NASA's mission control and Johnson Space Center.

    After indicating the election astronauts want to participate in, six-months later, they receive 'Voter Registration and Absentee-Ballot-Request'.

    A "secure electronic ballot" is sent by Mission control, Houston via the County Clerk to the space station; the vote is recorded by the astronaut and returned by email.

  • Stark contrast

    Votes from space yet millions on Earth won't vote

    Votes from space yet millions on Earth won't vote
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  • Based on past-records, 80 million Americans are likely to give voting in US presidential elections a miss.

    In the last presidential-elections in 2012, out of 241 million eligible voters, only 129.1 million eventually voted; a turnout-rate of 53.6 percent that's been consistent for decades.

    Some anticipate turnout to be higher this year given increased registrations and intensifying sentiments around Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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