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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 ...
Astronauts have been voting from space since 1997, the year the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing NASA employees to vote from space. David Wolf was the first American to vote from space ...
The NASA astronauts stuck in space are still planning to participate in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams have been in space since June 5 ...
Space career: NASA astronaut; Time in space. 54d 2h 4m: Selection: ... As the election was a special election, Kelly took office during the 116th Congress, ...
She was the first woman in space, and served first in the Supreme Soviet (1966–1989) and later in the State Duma (since 2011). In Russia, cosmonaut Yuri Baturin, described by Space.com in 2000 as "Russia's only cosmonaut / politician", became a senior aide to President Boris Yeltsin and served as one of that nation's leading space policy ...
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 ...
Signing of the Outer Space Treaty. The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a multilateral treaty that forms the basis of international space law.