Astronauts Michael Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff did what only four other Astronauts have done in NASA ’s 50 years when theyvoted today — from space . Thanks to a Texas broadside passed in 1997 , NASA space type are able-bodied to legally vote while they ’re out of the planet on business sector . But how did they puke their voting from infinite , you ask ? Here ’s the answer thatSpace.comgot . Technically Astronaut voters cast an electronic Absentee vote that is prepared by the County Clerk ’s office in Harris and Brazoria county . The inviolable text file is then transferred to Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center , while an email with login instructions is sent to the astronaut . The astronaut logs in , balloting and shaft of light the ballot back down to commission control . The discharge vote is then sent back to the Clerk ’s berth to be summate . The first spaceman to do this was in 1997 when Michael Wolf vote from the Russian Space Station Mir and — Buckeye State MY GOD DID THOSE COMMIE RUSKIES GET TO wolf down AND HIS balloting AND CORRUPT OUR hallowed popular summons ? ! [ Space.comviaMSNBC ]
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