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To facilitate their voting, the Mission Control Center in Houston sent ballot papers via encrypted email to the ISS.

From there, landlines transmitted the ballots to Mission Control, who then electronically sent them to the astronauts' county clerks for filing.

“One of the things that made Flaco so popular was that he was an individual,” David Barrett, whose X account, Manhattan Bird Alert, was Mission Control during the Flaco year.

Beppo can communicate with words via a keyboard of icons, but when mission control loses control of the spacecraft, it’s up to Mulaney’s character to tell the chimp the bad news in words he can understand: “Beppo no go home. Beppo go dark. Beppo equals zero forever.”

When the flight director gave the go-ahead, cheers went up from SpaceX employees at mission control.