If an unexpected eight -day business trip is extended for nine months, you may expect some additional wage to be raised.
It is not the case for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, NASA astronauts who spent an additional 278 days at the International Space Station after the breakdown of the spacecraft. On Tuesday, they expelled off the Gulf Coast in Florida, where they have ended the epic of the country since last summer.
But despite their distant destination, the danger of lead and romance for space travel, when it comes to payment, Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor are treated effectively as any other government employee who takes a business trip to the next state.
“While he is in space, NASA’s astronauts are in official travel orders as federal employees,” said Jimmy Russell, a spokesman for the Acting Space Operations Directorate.
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmour were mainly able to leave their workplace, A group of stereotypes Get on the ground every 90 minutes, for more than nine months. Mr. Russell said that astronauts on the International Space Station do not get additional work, vacation or weekend.
Mr. Russell said that transportation, meals and housing covers them, and like other federal employees on work trips, they receive a “basin” daily. This is a boost for all DIEM provided to employees in the place of compensation for travel expenses.
Mr. Russell said that accidents to travel to anywhere is $ 5 per day.
This means that in addition to their annual salary – about 152,258 dollars, According to Nasa Mr. Willmore and Mrs. Williams received about $ 1830 for 286 days in space.
What are the accidental expenses that Mr. Wilmor and Mrs. Williams may incur while they are in orbit, 250 miles above the ground? This is not clear. These are usually “fees and tips for porters, luggage tankers, hotel staff and ships.” According to the American Public Services Department.
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor did not see their exact residence. “This is my happy place,” Mrs. Williams told reporters in September. “I would like to be here in space. It’s just fun, do you know?”
However, if it seems that 5 dollars per Deim seems low for a job that causes enough muscle and bone loss for you to need Gurney when returning to Earth, then think about Clayton Anderson, NASA’s 152 -day astronaut on the International Space Station in 2007.
Mr. Anderson said that Dim received about $ 1.20, or $ 172 in total.
Being an astronaut was amazing and the function of his dreams, Mr. Anderson said On social media in 2022, “but it is a government job with the government’s wages.”
He added, “I would have done better with the number of kilometers!”