Two American astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station will remain in orbit until 2025 but will still cast their votes in the upcoming U.S. election. While voting from space presents challenges,

When NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, back in June aboard the debut crewed flight of the Boeing Starliner spaceship, there was no reason to believe they’d be out of pocket for the November election.

The four other American astronauts currently aboard the ISS won’t be voting from space. Tracy Caldwell Dyson is scheduled to return to Earth on Sept. 23. Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps will return on Oct. 6.

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