But for some Americans, the process of casting their ballot is a little more complex than heading to the local school or library. What happens if you’re further afield—say, in space?
Menon, who launched aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft in July, pointed out his room, which “doubles as a voting booth,” for all intents and purposes.
Menon’s fellow U.S. crewmembers—Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, who launched to the ISS via a SpaceX rocket last month—were also able to vote.
Once an astronaut fills out an electronic ballot aboard the ISS, the document “flows through NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System to a ground antenna” at a test facility, according to a NASA description shared in 2024.
American astronauts have been voting from space since 1997, when the Texas Legislature passed a bill that allowed NASA astronauts to cast ballots from orbit.
“I voted alone up in space, very alone, the only English speaker up there, and it was nice to have an English ballot, something from America,” Wolf told The Atlantic in 2016. “It made me feel closer to the Earth and like the people of Earth actually cared about me up there.”
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