A program launched by NASA in the 1990s allows astronauts to vote, even while orbiting 250 miles above their home planet

A pair of NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) expressed their excitement to vote in the upcoming US presidential election from space, video posted on Tuesday, September 17,

American astronauts from NASA will be on the International Space Station (ISS) on 5 November, Election Day, and will cast their votes via postal ballots, CNN reported. They will float 320 kilometres above the nearest polling station that day.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts whose eight day trip to space turned into eight months, have requested their absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential election. Here's how voting from space works.