A program launched by NASA in the 1990s allows astronauts to vote, even while orbiting 250 miles above their home planet

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were only expected to be on the station for a week, have been stranded in space since June because of safety issues related to their capsule. Now they cannot return home until after the November election.

A pair of NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) expressed their excitement to vote in the upcoming US presidential election from space, video posted on Tuesday, September 17,

American astronauts from NASA will be on the International Space Station (ISS) on November 5, Election Day, and will cast their votes via mail-in ballots, CNN reported. They will float 320 kilometres above the nearest polling station that day.