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Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut.
Voted in the 2016 elections
CNN
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From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote.
Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut currently living aboard the International Space Station, cast his ballot in the presidential election on Tuesday, according to a NASA Tumblr post.
POT told Yahoo News that Kimbrough cast his ballot in the 2016 election from the space station sometime in the last few days.
For astronauts who will be in space on Election Day, the voting process begins one year before launch. At that time, they can select the elections in which they want to participate.
Then, six months before the election, the astronauts are provided with the “Application for Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot – Federal Post Card Application” form.
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.
