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Image Kjell Lindgren launched on social media of the US flag floating within the Cupola module.
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Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut
He voted within the 2016 election
CNN
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From infinity and past, he discovered a option to vote.
Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut at the moment dwelling on board the International Space Station, filed his poll in Tuesday’s presidential election, based on a Tumblr put up by NASA.
NASA advised Yahoo News that Kimbrough filed his poll within the 2016 election from the house station someday over the previous few days.
For astronauts who might be in house on Election Day, the voting course of begins a 12 months earlier than launch. At that point, they’re able to choose the elections wherein they need to take part.
Then, six months earlier than the election, astronauts are supplied with the shape “Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request – Federal Post Card Application.”
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Image Kjell Lindgren launched on social media of the US flag floating within the Cupola module.
NASA astronaut David Wolf was the primary American to vote in house whereas on the Russian Mir Space Station in a 1997 native election, based on NPR.