{
  "id": 18277121,
  "title": "NASA astronauts cast US election votes from the International Space Station",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/nasa-astronauts-cast-us-election-votes-from-the-international-space",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-05T08:34:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/05/nasa-astronauts-cast-us-election-votes-from-the-international-space-station"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "NASA astronauts Anil Menon, Luke Delaney, and Jessica Watkins have successfully cast their votes from the International Space Station (ISS) using a secure electronic system. Menon shared a video on X, showcasing his \"polling station\" - his private cabin on the ISS - and explained that his vote was officially recorded in Harris County, Texas, home to the Johnson Space Center. The voting process relies on NASA's daily data and message exchange infrastructure, with the encrypted ballot transmitted via the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System to the relevant county election official. This tradition began in 1997 when Texas law allowed astronauts to vote in US elections while in orbit, with astronaut David Wolf being the first to do so from the Russian space station Mir.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}