{"id":668160,"date":"2020-09-26T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668160"},"modified":"2020-09-26T13:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T17:05:57","slug":"nasa-astronaut-will-vote-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668160","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronaut Will Vote From Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ap_20269664027276_wide-3e3fccfd6cdea1ca9dab8537aee085db389ab9a5.jpg\" alt=\"NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen during Soyuz qualification exams on Wednesday at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center just outside Moscow. Rubins plans to cast her next vote from space &#x2013; more than 200 miles above Earth.&#xD7;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Astronauts have been able to cast ballots from above since the Texas legislature gave its blessing in 1997. &#8220;It&#8217;s critical to participate in our democracy,&#8221; NASA astronaut Kate Rubins said.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Andrey Shelepin\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/npr-rss-pixel-7.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/26\/917233532\/nasa-astronaut-will-vote-from-space?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA Astronaut Will Vote From Space<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts have been able to cast ballots from above since the Texas legislature gave its blessing in 1997. &#8220;It&#8217;s critical to participate in our democracy,&#8221; NASA astronaut Kate Rubins said.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}