Individuals who hate on mail-in ballots are going to be howling on the moon after this one … ‘trigger a pair astronauts are casting their votes from the Worldwide Area Station.
Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams — the two astronauts who went as much as house on the Boeing Starliner, and who at the moment are caught after security considerations with their craft arose — spoke with reporters Friday … and, they are saying they nonetheless plan on voting.
Wilmore says he despatched his request for a poll all the way down to Earth Friday … including that NASA helps all its astronauts safe ballots. Each astronauts touched on how they really feel it is their civic responsibility to forged their votes come the primary Tuesday in November.
In case you are questioning how the method works … election officers in Harris County, Texas — the place NASA’s Johnson Area Heart is situated — ship clickable PDFs to the astronauts to allow them to make their picks, in keeping with NBC Information.
Astronauts first began voting from house within the late Nineteen Nineties … so, nothing out of the odd right here — although there are a pair extra astro-ballots beaming down than NASA initially anticipated.
As you already know … the Boeing Starliner capsule returned to Earth a few week in the past — cruising again down unmanned after a collection of points made NASA too nervous to permit the 2-person crew to return with their spaceship.
Butch and Sunita — who initially went up in June for what was speculated to be a week-long mission — are caught in outer house for an additional 6 months or so … catching a journey on one among Elon Musk‘s SpaceX ships early subsequent yr.
Appears like their votes will make the trek down earlier than they do … democracy in motion!
