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  2. How do astronauts vote in space? - AOL

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    The ballots are encrypted and can only be accessed by the astronaut and the clerk. Astronauts have been voting in US elections for nearly 30 years. The Texas legislature passed a bill that allowed ...

  3. Voting in space - Wikipedia

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    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 prohibitive. Some astronauts vote electronically, while others communicate their voting intentions to a proxy .

  4. The astronauts stuck at the International Space Station are ...

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    NASA astronauts aboard the Space Station have the opportunity to vote in general elections through absentee ballots or early voting in coordination with the county clerk’s office where they live ...

  5. Stranded astronauts plan to vote in the 2024 election from space

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    The two American astronauts stranded on the International Space Station through February said Friday they plan to vote in the November election from space. “I sent down my request for a ballot ...

  6. List of astronauts by year of selection - Wikipedia

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    For its first phase, Citizens in Space selected and trained ten citizen astronaut candidates to fly as payload operators, including four astronaut candidates already in training (Maureen Adams, Steve Heck, Michael Johnson, and Edward Wright). [85] Informal educator and aerospace historian Gregory Kennedy was among those listed. [86]

  7. NASA Astronaut Corps - Wikipedia

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    As of 2015, astronauts based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, earn between $66,026 (GS-11 step 1) and $158,700 (GS-15 step 8 and above). [5] As of the new astronaut candidate class announcement of 2024, astronaut candidates will be removed from the GS pay scale and be paid on an AD 'Administratively Determined" scale.

  8. Remember those Starliner astronauts still in space? Don’t ...

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    NASA astronaut Kate Rubins points to the International Space Station’s “voting booth” where she cast her vote from space in 2020. That was Rubins’ second time to vote from low-Earth orbit ...

  9. Deniz Burnham - Wikipedia

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    On December 6, 2021, Burnham was revealed to be one of ten candidates selected as part NASA Astronaut Group 23. She started her training in January 2022, completed it with fellow astronaut candidates Anil Menon and Marcos Berrios in a ceremony on March 5, 2024.