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Who Is Sunita Williams and Why Are the Starliner Astronauts Stuck in Space?
ISS commander Sunita Williams, who has been stranded there since June due to the malfunctioning Boeing Starliner, is feared to be losing weight.
The astronauts stuck at the International Space Station are voting Tuesday — here’s how
The crew - including two stuck there after the Boeing Starliner malfunctioned - will beam their votes back to Earth thanks to a high-tech encrypted system.
Who are the Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck in space, and why are they still there?
They’re outer this world. It’s been almost six months since technical issues stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams onboard the International Space Station.
Remember those Starliner astronauts still in space? Don’t worry, they can vote.
Ahead of the Nov. 5 election, four Americans are in space who may want to vote. Fortunately for them, NASA has long had a plan to make it possible.
Four NASA astronauts requested absentee ballots to vote from space
I got my ballot in and made sure that mine got counted,” Astronaut Butch Wilmore said Tuesday during a talk with students at Tennessee Tech University.
Can astronauts vote from space?
NASA said votes are transmitted from space similar to the way most data is, being transmitted from the International Space Station to the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston through NASA's Near Space Network, which connects missions within 1.2 million miles of Earth with communications and navigation services.
How do astronauts vote in the US election from space?
It’s Election Day in the U.S., and while millions of Americans are heading to the polls, some voters are casting their ballots from a much more unusual location—space. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS),
As the US heads to the polls, here’s how astronauts cast their votes from space during US election
Despite being in orbit, American astronauts can vote in the election thanks to a secure space-based voting process. View on euronews
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