{"id":23265,"date":"2020-09-30T21:27:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/four-americans-aboard-iss-will-vote-from-space-in-u-s-2020-election-on-november-3-u\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T21:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:27:26","slug":"four-americans-aboard-iss-will-vote-from-space-in-u-s-2020-election-on-november-3-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/four-americans-aboard-iss-will-vote-from-space-in-u-s-2020-election-on-november-3-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Americans aboard ISS will vote from space in U.S. 2020 election on November 3 [U]"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1502\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"4852\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/09\/29\/nasa-astronauts-space-voters\/11537924_490744361082490_7458474404062351799_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1065\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"11537924_490744361082490_7458474404062351799_o\" data-image-description=\"\n\n<p>Celebrating Flag Day on June 14, 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took this photograph in the cupola of the International Space Station. Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) wrote, &amp;#8220;Stars and stripes from @Space_Station. Happy #NationalFlagDay! #YearInSpace&amp;#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko launched to the International Space Station on March 27, 2015, beginning their one-year mission in space. Most expeditions to the space station last four to six months. By doubling the length of this mission, researchers hope to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to long-duration spaceflight. This knowledge is critical as NASA looks toward human journeys deeper into the solar system, including to and from Mars, which could last 500 days or longer.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-image-caption=&#8221;&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&#8243;><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>October 10, 2020: Crew-1 launch date has slipped to likely after election day. Three Americans who planned to vote in space will likely still be on Earth. Astronaut Kate Rubins lifts off on October 14 before the election<\/em>.<em> Original story below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voters across the country will head to the polls on November 3 to vote in the 2020 election, and this year four Americans will call the International Space Station their local polling station. NASA astronauts who will soon leave Earth for the ISS some 200 miles above the planet have opted to vote from space in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-4832\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is currently in Russia preparing for a six month stay in space alongside two cosmonauts as part of the next Expedition crew. Her launch is currently scheduled to liftoff on October 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astronaut Rubins opted to vote from space in this election to motivate others to also participate in the upcoming election while on Earth. <\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-4832',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>I think it\u2019s really important for everybody to vote. If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground, too. It\u2019s critical to participate in our democracy. We consider it an honor to be able to vote from space.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><cite>Associated Press<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to her upcoming mission, Kate Rubins was the first person to sequence DNA in space. She will soon work on a cardiovascular experiment to conduct studies using the Cold Atom Lab. Rubins will relieve Commander Chris Cassidy from his role as the sole American aboard the space station after a seven day handoff period on October 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten days later, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Shannon Walker will be joined by JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi as the SpaceX Crew-1 mission lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All three NASA astronauts have opted to also vote from space as their Halloween morning launch takes place three days before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While they won\u2019t have access to a real ballot from above, the astronauts will receive a secure PDF file to record their votes. This file will be sent back to Earth and it will go to their respective counties where the vote is counted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This won\u2019t be the first time an astronaut will vote from space, however. Kate Rubins and SpaceX Crew-2 astronaut Shane Kimbrough previously voted in space. SpaceX Crew-1 astronaut Shannon Walker will also be voting from space for a second time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}