This NASA astronaut voted from space

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From infinity and past, he discovered a way to vote.

Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut at the moment living on board the International Room Station, filed his ballot in Tuesday’s presidential election, in accordance to a Tumblr post by NASA.

NASA informed Yahoo News that Kimbrough submitted his ballot in the 2016 election from the house station someday about the past couple of times.

For astronauts who will be in space on Election Working day, the voting course of action commences a yr right before launch. At that time, they are capable to find the elections in which they want to take part.

Then, 6 months before the election, astronauts are presented with the variety “Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request – Federal Write-up Card Software.”

NASA astronaut David Wolf was the first American to vote in house when on the Russian Mir House Station in a 1997 local election, according to NPR.