{"id":37880,"date":"2023-07-17T22:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/this-nasa-astronaut-voted-from-space\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:43:15","slug":"this-nasa-astronaut-voted-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/this-nasa-astronaut-voted-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"This NASA astronaut voted from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<div data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/highlights\/instances\/highlights-h_c28d312265860c8635c28dcc2f3489c0@published\" class=\"highlights\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<h3 class=\"highlights__headline\">Story highlights<\/h3>\n<div data-editable=\"highlights\">\n<p class=\"highlights__paragraph\">Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut<\/p>\n<p class=\"highlights__paragraph\">He voted in the 2016 election<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_C9CCBD2B-2607-B0DB-1935-40BA55BBA42C@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\">\n      From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_D9CEE084-9F3C-5ECA-8D6E-40B7174BA351@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\">\n      Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut currently living on board the International Space Station, filed his ballot in Tuesday\u2019s presidential election, according to a Tumblr post by NASA.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_FC1F6D48-121F-3888-EFBD-40C3B5C5A25E@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\">\n      NASA told Yahoo News that Kimbrough filed his ballot in the 2016 election from the space station sometime over the past few days.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_640834A5-459B-5F6F-A599-40B7C8B066D9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\">\n      For astronauts who will be in space on Election Day, the voting process starts a year before launch. At that time, they are able to select the elections in which they want to participate.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_8110C93C-BDB6-1E08-BA51-40B7C8B27828@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\">\n      Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with the form \u201cVoter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request \u2013 Federal Post Card Application.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/image-a805b7b4e542f47b75c3965594510749@published\" class=\"image_inline-small image_inline-small__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image_inline-small\" data-name=\"nasa 1\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image_inline-small--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.665625\" data-original-height=\"852\" data-original-width=\"1280\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/161107162522-nasa-1.jpg?q=w_1280,h_852,x_0,y_0,c_fill\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image_inline-small__container \" data-image-variation=\"image_inline-small\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image_inline-small--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image_inline-small__picture\"><source height=\"720\" width=\"1280\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/161107162522-nasa-1.jpg?q=x_0,y_64,h_720,w_1280,c_crop\/h_720,w_1280\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"540\" width=\"960\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/161107162522-nasa-1.jpg?q=x_0,y_64,h_720,w_1280,c_crop\/h_540,w_960\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"270\" width=\"480\" media=\"(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/161107162522-nasa-1.jpg?q=x_0,y_64,h_720,w_1280,c_crop\/h_270,w_480\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/161107162522-nasa-1.jpg?q=x_0,y_64,h_720,w_1280,c_crop\/h_720,w_1280\" alt=\"Image Kjell Lindgren released on social media of the US flag floating in the Cupola module. \" class=\"image_inline-small__dam-img image_inline-small__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove(&#039;image_inline-small__dam-img--loading&#039;)\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"852\" width=\"1280\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_168F0030-C1C1-EA4C-0916-40B7C8B42BE8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\">\n      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.\n  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/07\/politics\/nasa-astronaut-space-vote-election-2016\/index.html?eref=rss_tech\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lenkaed.com\" title=\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story highlights Shane Kimbrough is a NASA astronaut He voted in the 2016 election CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 From infinity and beyond, he found a way to vote. Shane Kimbrough, a NASA astronaut currently living on board the International Space Station, filed his ballot in Tuesday\u2019s presidential election, according to a Tumblr post by NASA. NASA told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7710"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}