Tale highlights
- Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut
- He voted within the 2016 election
Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut recently dwelling on board the Global Area Station, filed his poll in Tuesday’s presidential election, in step with a Tumblr submit by means of NASA.
NASA advised Yahoo Information that Kimbrough filed his poll within the 2016 election from the gap station someday during the last few days.
For astronauts who will likely be in house on Election Day, the vote casting procedure begins a 12 months sooner than release. At the moment, they may be able to make a choice the elections during which they need to take part.
Then, six months sooner than the election, astronauts are supplied with the shape “Voter Registration and Absentee Poll Request — Federal Submit Card Software.”
NASA astronaut David Wolf used to be the primary American to vote in house whilst at the Russian Mir Area Station in a 1997 native election, in step with NPR.
