First vote for 2017 US elections comes from space...!!!

First vote for the 2017 United States Presidential elections has been registered from a space station. According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the only astronaut in space Shane Kimbrough has followed the tradition of participating in elections by casting his vote from International Space Station (ISS).

Sakshi Chaturvedi
Published on: 8 Nov 2016 6:57 AM GMT
First vote for 2017 US elections comes from space...!!!
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Washington: First vote for the 2017 United States Presidential elections has been registered from a space station. According to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the only astronaut in space Shane Kimbrough has followed the tradition of participating in elections by casting his vote from International Space Station (ISS).

Shane reached the ISS on October 19 last, in Russian Rocket Soyuz. He is on a four months mission for a research project of NASA.

Sakshi Chaturvedi

Sakshi Chaturvedi

A journalist, presently working as a Sub-Editor at newstrack.com.

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