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This NASA Astronaut Is Voting From Space, So There Are Truly No Excuses – POPSUGAR Australia
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will cast her 2020 election ballot from space this year. A 1997 law allows her and other astronauts to do so.
On Nov. 3, Kate Rubins will be orbiting a cool 200 miles above Earth, but that’s not preventing her from voting in the presidential election. The 41-year-old NASA astronaut is planning to cast her ballot from the International Space Station this year after embarking on a six-month mission that departs in mid-October. “I think it’s really important for everybody to vote,” she told the Associated Press. “If we can do it from space, then I believe folks can do it from the ground, too.”
“If we can…
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