The astronauts stuck at the International Space Station are voting Tuesday — here’s how
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.
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I got my ballot in and made sure that mine got counted,” Astronaut Butch Wilmore said Tuesday during a talk with students at Tennessee Tech University.
Can astronauts vote from space?
NASA said votes are transmitted from space similar to the way most data is, being transmitted from the International Space Station to the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston through NASA's Near Space Network, which connects missions within 1.2 million miles of Earth with communications and navigation services.
Remember those Starliner astronauts still in space? Don’t worry, they can vote.
Ahead of the Nov. 5 election, four Americans are in space who may want to vote. Fortunately for them, NASA has long had a plan to make it possible.
How do astronauts vote in the US election from space?
The history of space voting starts in 1996 when astronaut John Blaha couldn’t physically vote in that year’s presidential race between President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Blaha was stationed aboard the now-defunct Russian Mir Space Station, a predecessor to the International Space Station.
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