NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 11月9日 04時16分

Vote While You float: An Astronaut Voting Story - With the excitement of getting to the polls on Election Day many people will have a hard time keeping their feet on the ground, but astronauts who vote literally have to strap themselves down so they don't float away. Astronauts orbit the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, but thanks to a bill passed by Texas legislatures in 1997 that put in place technical voting procedure for astronauts - nearly all of whom live in Texas - they also have the ability to vote from space!

For astronauts, the voting process starts a year before launch, when astronauts are able to select which elections (local/state/federal) that they want to participate in while in space. Then, six months before the election, astronauts are provided with a standard form: the "Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request - Federal Post Card Application." While astronauts don't have to wait in line for their ballot like the rest of us, there is one disadvantage to voting in space: they miss out on the highly coveted "I Voted" sticker.

Credit: NASA

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