NASA astronaut casts her ballot from space station

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins cast her ballot from on Thursday – more than 200 miles above Earth.

Rubins is currently aboard International Station for a six-month stay.

Most U.S. astronauts live in Houston. Texas law allows m to vote from using a secure electronic ballot.

Mission Control forwards ballot to station and relays completed ballot back to county clerk.

NASA astronauts have voted from before. Rubins and Shane Kimbrough cast ir votes from International Station.

Rubins, first person to sequence DNA in , plans to work on a cardiovascular experiment and conduct research using station's Cold Atom Lab.

She'll celebrate 20th anniversary of continuous human presence on station, and welcome crew of second X commercial crew mission, expected to arrive in late October.

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