Cape Canaveral, Fla. ? The space station’s newest astronaut will cast his ballot in the presidential election from 225 miles up, with NASA’s help.

Leroy Chiao said Monday that the space agency has worked hard with local and federal authorities so he can vote from the orbiting complex, his home until spring. He will cast his ballot via a secure e-mail connection.

Chiao arrived at the station over the weekend via a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that also carried two cosmonauts, one of whom will spend the next six months with him in orbit.

The astronaut he is replacing, Mike Fincke, said he, too, will vote — but by absentee ballot from Russia.

That is where Fincke will be on Election Day, recuperating from a six-month space station mission that is due to end with a landing in Kazakhstan this weekend.