PHOTO: Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara vote in the elections from space. (Jasmin Moghbeli/NASA via X)The first U.S. astronaut to vote from space was David Wolf, who cast his ballot in 1997 from the Russian space station Mir, according to the National Air and Space Museum. The state Legislature in Texas — the state that's home to the Johnson Space Center — passed a law that year allowing voters to cast ballots from space, which they can do electronically through ballots transmitted electronically up to the cosmos. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins also cast a starfaring ballot in 2020 from the International Space Station, according to NASA, while astronaut Josh Cassada said he voted in the 2022 midterm elections there. NASA astronauts say they cast their Super Tuesday ballots from space originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News March 06, 2024 16:38 UTC