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This NASA astronaut voted from space





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Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut
He voted in the 2016 election





(CNN)From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote.
Shane Kimbrough, a NASA cosmonaut currently living on accost the International Space Station, filed his ballot in Tuesday's presidential election, according to a Tumblr station by NASA.
NASA told Yahoo News that Kimbrough filed his ballot in the 2016 election from the walk station sometime over the past few days.
For astronauts who will be in rove on Election Day, the voting affair starts a year lest launch. At that set
, they are able to select the elections in which they want to participate.
Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with the form "Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request -- Federal Post Card Application."

NASA astronaut David Wolf was the foremost American to vote in space loiter on the Russian Mir Space Station in a 1997 sectional election, according to NPR.



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