NASA astronauts say they cast their Super Tuesday ballots from space

Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station, posted on X on Tuesday that they voted in the primaries on Super Tuesday, when people are casting ballots in presidential nominating races in 16 states across the country as well as one U.S. territory. The first U.S. astronaut to vote from space was David Wolf, who cast his ballot in 1997 from the Russian space station Mir in 1997, according to the National Air and Space Museum. The state Legislature in Texas — the state that's home to the Johnson Space Center — passed a law that year allowing voters to cast ballots from space, which they can do electronically through ballots transmitted electronically up to the cosmos.