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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 ...
The first American to vote for president in space was Leroy Chiao in 2004 who was onboard the ISS in 2004. While American astronaut Kathleen Rubins voted on two occasions, in 2016 and 2020.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The politics of outer space includes space treaties, law in space, international cooperation and conflict in space exploration, international economics, and the hypothetical political impact of any contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. Astropolitics has its foundations in geopolitics and is a theory that is used for space in its broadest ...