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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. [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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew launched and landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, completing 126 orbits of the Earth in 3.35 million miles. [5] STS-62 (March 4–18, 1994) was a 14-day mission for the United States Microgravity Payload (USMP) 2 and Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) 2 payloads. These payloads studied ...
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.
STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program.The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, [1] and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times.