# Nasa astronaut casts midterms vote from space – video

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/nasa-astronaut-casts-midterms-vote-from-space-video/
- Published: 2026-11-03T22:23:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T23:30:10+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/nov/03/nasa-astronaut-casts-midterms-vote-from-space-video
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Politics, Space, Technology, World

## Key points

- Anil Menon voted in the US midterms from the International Space Station.
- He sent an electronic ballot to election officials in Harris County, Texas.
- Nasa says ballots sent from orbit are encrypted and relayed through its communications network.

## Summary

Nasa astronaut Anil Menon cast his vote in the 2026 US midterm elections from the International Space Station. In a video shared on election day, he said he completed an electronic ballot on a station computer and sent it to election officials in Harris County, Texas. Menon said all three American crew members aboard the station had the opportunity to vote from orbit.

Astronauts can arrange absentee voting with the election office where they live. According to Nasa, a completed electronic ballot travels through its communications network to Mission Control and then to the relevant county clerk. The ballot is encrypted so that only the astronaut and the clerk can access it. Americans have voted from space since 1997, when David Wolf cast a ballot while aboard the Mir space station.

## Coverage

- [The Guardian: Nasa astronaut casts midterms vote from space – video](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2026/nov/03/nasa-astronaut-casts-midterms-vote-from-space-video)
- [Nasa: How NASA Astronauts Vote from Space Aboard International Space Station](https://www.nasa.gov/general/how-nasa-astronauts-vote-from-space-aboard-international-space-station/)
- [Al Jazeera: US astronauts vote from space in 2026 midterm elections](https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/video/newsfeed/2026/11/3/aje-onl-nf_us-astronauts-vote-from-space-in-2026-elections-031126)

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