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Two-time space voter Kathleen Rubins [1] [2] posing in front of a "voting booth" on the International Space Station, 2020. Many people have cast votes during spaceflight. Voting from space has some inherent difficulties, as delivering paper ballots to and from a space station—as one would do for a soldier stationed overseas—would be cost ...
In space, hundreds of miles above Earth, NASA astronauts on the International Space Station are voting in the 2024 presidential election. There are four Americans currently aboard the orbiting ...
Leroy Chiao (born August 28, 1960) is an American chemical engineer, retired NASA astronaut, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and engineering consultant. [1] [3] Chiao flew on three Space Shuttle flights, and was the commander of Expedition 10, where he lived on board the International Space Station from October 13, 2004 to April 24, 2005. [1]
As the election was a special election, Kelly took office during the 116th Congress, shortly after Arizona certified its election results on November 30, unlike other senators and representatives elected in 2020, who took office at the opening of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021. Kelly was sworn in at noon on December 2.
His 2019 run garnered 4.52% of the vote, in comparison to the 16% he managed in his 2003 run for the same office. [21] He was a candidate for the 2020 gubernatorial election, stating his party preference as "Trump Republican", [22] winning 5,646 votes in the primary. [23] He ran in the 2024 United States Senate election as a Republican. [24]
In 2000, Nelson was elected to the U.S. Senate seat that had been vacated by retiring Republican senator Connie Mack III with 51% of the vote. He was reelected in 2006 with 60% of the vote [2] and in 2012 with 55% of the vote. Nelson ran in 2018 for a fourth term, but narrowly lost to then-Governor Rick Scott. [3]
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician.He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. [3]
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