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The first American to vote for president in space was Leroy Chiao in 2004 who was onboard the ISS in 2004. [11] American astronaut Kathleen Rubins voted on the ISS on two occasions, in 2016 and 2020. [2] While most astronauts live in, and are registered to vote in, Texas, some are registered elsewhere in the country.
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 ...
Just because a handful of American astronauts won't be able to get to their local schools, churches and rec centers to vote in the 2024 presidential election doesn't mean they can't still make ...
The crew - including two stuck there after the Boeing Starliner malfunctioned - will beam their votes back to Earth thanks to a high-tech encrypted system.
Amy McGrath, retired lieutenant colonel, Democratic nominee for the 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky [3] Joseph V. Medina, retired brigadier general [3] Michael J. Williams, retired four-star general, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (2000–2002) [1]
John Glenn, shown here before his trip for mission STS-95 in 1998, was a NASA astronaut who later became a US Senator. The first American to orbit the Earth, he was elected to the Senate in 1974 and served until 1999. An astronaut-politician is a person who has entered politics after traveling to space as an astronaut. Even with the increasing ...
Like most US astronauts, Wilmore and Williams live near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas’ Harris County, where election officials confirmed to CNN that they are working with the space ...
The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), P.L. 99-410, 52 U.S.C. §§ 20301–20311, 39 U.S.C. § 3406, 18 U.S.C. §§ 608–609, is a United States federal law dealing with elections and voting rights for United States citizens residing overseas.