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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

If your eight-day work trip was unexpectedly extended by nine months, you might expect to rack up some overtime pay. Not so for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who spent 278 extra days on the International Space Station after their spacecraft malfunctioned. On Tuesday, they splashed down off the Gulf Coast of … Read more

SpaceX Capsule Docks in Space, Paving the Way for Astronauts’ Return

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SpaceX Capsule Docks in Space, Paving the Way for Astronauts’ Return

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station at 1:35 a.m. Eastern time, paving the way for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — two NASA astronauts who have remained in space for months longer than planned — to finally return home. The Crew-10 mission, an international team of four astronauts from the U.S., … Read more