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Trump suggests paying overtime to astronauts back from space

  • President Donald Trump promised to cover overtime pay for astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore after they were stranded in space for 286 days.
  • NASA agreed to cover only $5 per day in incidentals for the astronauts, amounting to about $1,400 for extra time in space.
  • SpaceX launched a rescue mission to bring Williams and Wilmore back to Earth after their extended stay.
  • Trump expressed concern over the astronauts' physical condition, stating, 'the body starts to deteriorate after nine or ten months.
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Five dollars a day for 286 days of all-life: NASA practice causes indignation. Trump grumbles against the former Biden government and wants to intervene.

Instead of a week, two Nasa astronauts spent nine months on the ISS space station. Being trapped in the workplace for so long should be financially worthwhile, one might think – but wrongly thought.

·Munich, Germany
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One week became almost a year! The two US astronauts, who had to stay on the International Space Station for about nine months longer than originally planned, did not get paid the many overtimes. Just like other government employees on duty trips, they had received a salary for a 40-hour week, as well as costs for "transport, accommodation and meals" were taken over by NASA, said a spokesman for the US Space Agency. In addition, both of them had…

·Vienna, Austria
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Because of a breakdown, spacemen had to stay on the ISS space station for nine months longer than planned. US President Trump now wants to pay the overtime "out of his own pocket"

·Vienna, Austria
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The Daily Wire broke the news in Nashville, United States on Friday, March 21, 2025.
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