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with Boeing's Starliner capsule plan to cast their vote in the November presidential elections, showing that Earth-bound American citizens have no good excuse for not voting. "It’s a very important duty that we have as citizens and looking forward to being able to vote from space, which is pretty cool," said NASA astronaut Sunita Williams,Her colleague and fellow Starliner passenger Butch Wilmore echoed those remarks.
"I sent down my request for a ballot today," said Wilmore. "It’s a very important role that we play as citizen including those elections, and NASA makes it very easy for us to do that." NASA sends a ballot prepared by election officials to the astronauts consisting of a PDF document that's password protected and has boxes for them to check off in order to make their choices., but there must have been last minute maneuvering to send ballots up to these astronauts, who unexpectedly saw their eight-day test flight extended until February of next year.experienced additional thruster issues Further investigations — and perhaps hearings — will hopefully cast light on what went terribly wrong with a project that ate up so many tax dollars.
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