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Before she rocketed into space last July as part of a crew on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins picked up an absentee ballot in case her return home, scheduled for late October, was delayed.
When she's not in space, home is Houston, Texas, but in this case, the absentee ballot lists her address as "low-Earth orbit."
"It's very incredible that we're able to vote from up here," she said, "and I think it's incredibly important for us to vote in all of the elections."
The station’s replacement crew was suppose to leave on Friday, but the Russians delayed the launch for technical reasons. It has been put off for a month.
In the meantime, Rubins will continue with her work:
A professional virus hunter before becoming an astronaut, Rubins, 37, last month became the first person to perform full-blown DNA decoding, or sequencing, in space. She's already racked up more than 1 billion base pairs, which are the building blocks of DNA.
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