{"id":1552,"date":"2024-03-17T00:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/this-nasa-astronaut-voted-from-space-cnn-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:36:32","slug":"this-nasa-astronaut-voted-from-space-cnn-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/this-nasa-astronaut-voted-from-space-cnn-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"This NASA astronaut voted from space | CNN Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut<\/p>\n

He voted in the 2016 election<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote.\n <\/p>\n

\n Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut currently living on board the International Space Station, filed his ballot in Tuesday\u2019s presidential election, according to a Tumblr post by NASA<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n NASA told Yahoo News<\/a> that Kimbrough filed his ballot in the 2016 election from the space station sometime over the past few days.\n <\/p>\n

\n For astronauts who will be in space on Election Day, the voting process starts a year before launch. At that time, they are able to select the elections in which they want to participate.\n <\/p>\n

\n Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with the form \u201cVoter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request \u2013 Federal Post Card Application.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n NASA astronaut David Wolf was the first American to vote in space while on the Russian Mir Space Station in a 1997 local election, according to NPR<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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