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How NASA Astronauts Vote from Space Aboard International Space Station


NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the opportunity to vote in general elections through absentee ballots or early voting in

After an astronaut fills out an electronic ballot aboard the orbiting laboratory, the document flows through NASA’s to a ground antenna at the agency’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. For more than two decades, astronauts have continuously lived and worked aboard the space station, testing technologies, performing science, and developing skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory stay connected with Earth and their civilian lives back home by communicating with mission control through the Near Space Network.

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