Story highlights
- Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut
- He voted within the 2016 election
Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut at present residing on board the Worldwide House Station, filed his poll in Tuesday’s presidential election, according to a Tumblr post by NASA.
NASA told Yahoo News that Kimbrough filed his poll within the 2016 election from the area station someday over the previous few days.
For astronauts who shall be in area on Election Day, the voting course of begins a yr earlier than launch. At the moment, they can choose the elections by which they wish to take part.
Then, six months earlier than the election, astronauts are supplied with the shape “Voter Registration and Absentee Poll Request — Federal Publish Card Software.”
NASA astronaut David Wolf was the primary American to vote in area whereas on the Russian Mir House Station in a 1997 native election, according to NPR.
