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At least he didn’t have to wait in line. An American astronaut cast her vote from the International Space Station on Thursday, making her voice heard in the presidential elections despite being 408 kilometers above Earth.
“From the International Space Station: I voted today,” Kate Rubins, who began a six-month stint aboard the orbiting station last week, said on NASA’s Twitter account.
The post featured a photo of Rubins, his hair floating in the zero-gravity environment, in front of an enclosure with a sign reading “ISS voting booth.”
Rubins and Nasa described the process as a form of absentee voting. A secure electronic ballot generated by a Harris County clerk’s office, home of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was emailed to the ISS. Rubins filled out the ballot in the email, downloaded it, and returned it to the clerk’s office.
Rubins had also cast her vote from the ISS during the 2016 elections. “We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space,” she said in a video before she and two Russian cosmonauts launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 14th.
