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Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut
He voted in the 2016 election
CNN
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From the other side of infinity, he found a way to vote.
Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut currently living on the International Space Station, has submitted his ballot in Tuesday’s presidential election, according to a NASA Tumblr post.
NASA told Yahoo News that Kimbrough submitted his 2016 election ballot from the space station sometime in the past few days.
For astronauts who will be in space on Election Day, the voting process begins a year before launch, when they can choose which elections they want to participate in.
Then, six months before the election, astronauts receive a “Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request – Federal Postcard Request.”
NASA astronaut David Wolf became the first American to vote in space during the 1997 local elections while on the Russian Mir space station, NPR reported.
