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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.
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 ...
Houston election officials are working with NASA to deliver absentee ballots to astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are stuck in space until at least February 2025
Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics. They did not have specific crew roles, but are listed in the Payload Specialist columns for reasons of space. Only two flights have carried more than seven crew members for either launch or landing.
The telescope's aperture door was then reopened (a 33-minute procedure) and then released at 10:26 UTC. Commander Dick Covey and pilot Kenneth D. Bowersox fired Endeavour ' s small maneuvering jets and moved the shuttle slowly away from HST. Landing of the Shuttle occurred at Kennedy Space Center on Runway 33 at 05:26 UTC on December 13, 1993.
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 ...
STS-81 Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on January 12, 1997. STS-81 was the fifth in a series of joint missions between the U.S. Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir and the second one involving an exchange of U.S. astronauts. In five days of docked operations more than three tons of food, water ...