A parking spot shuffle coming up this weekend more than 250 miles above Earth will mark a unique feat for a pair of NASA astronauts who will become the first to fly in both Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will wait until 2025 to return to Earth aboard their newly assigned spacecraft, SpaceX’s Crew-9. Here’s what they’ll be up to in the meantime.

The crew - including two stuck there after the Boeing Starliner malfunctioned - will beam their votes back to Earth thanks to a high-tech encrypted system.

As millions of Americans prepare to vote in the 2024 U.S. Election, a select few will cast their ballots from an extraordinary location—250 miles above Earth.

The stranded astronauts are now set to return home aboard SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. To make room for them, NASA and SpaceX had to tweak the Crew-9 capsule and astronaut assignments ahead of its launch on September 28. This ensured enough space for Williams and Wilmore when it wraps up its ISS mission no earlier than February 2025.

The history of space voting starts in 1996 when astronaut John Blaha couldn’t physically vote in that year’s presidential race between President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. Blaha was stationed aboard the now-defunct Russian Mir Space Station, a predecessor to the International Space Station.

There are four Americans currently living in space, and each has had the opportunity to add their voice to the more than 160 million other Americans able to participate in the 2024 Presidential election.

American astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were able to add their voices to the more than 160 million people expected to cast their ballots in the presidential election. However,

Despite being in orbit, American astronauts can vote in the election thanks to a secure space-based voting process. View on euronews