Donald Trump offered to pay overtime to astronauts
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth after spending 9 months in space, and even after spending 278 days, they will not get extra money for overtime because they are paid salary every month. On this, US President Donald Trump said smilingly that I would pay them for overtime from my pocket.
NASA employees do not get overtime money like other employees who are on some other job are paid overtime. However, NASA astronauts are not paid overtime, neither on Sundays or holidays nor for space missions. They only get $5 (₹429) per day, which they get for transport, food, and incidental expenses. According to that, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will get $1,430 (₹122,972) in addition to their salary. Which is approximately $94,998 (₹8,169,362) and $123,152 (₹10,590,468), which is their total salary.
Thanks to Elon Musk
Donald Trump thanked Elon Musk and said that if Musk had not helped, the astronauts would have been stuck in space for a longer time. I thank Musk for this. When US President Donald Trump was told about the “accidental things” that the passengers had to face, Donald Trump said that “this is nothing compared to the hardships the astronauts had to endure.”
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth on Wednesday morning after spending more than nine months on the ISS. They were brought back in Elon Musk’s Dragon spacecraft. If they had been stuck in space for a longer time, it would have been a very serious situation because the body starts deteriorating when you stay in space for a long time. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore landed on the coast of Florida and while coming down on the stretcher, they were seen smiling and waving their hands. The whole world was eagerly waiting for this, and then the whole world celebrated.
After their return, they will have to go through a long process to adjust their body to the earth’s environment again. Because there is no gravity in space, they have difficulty standing, walking, getting up, sitting, etc. After some time, they will come to a normal position and will be ready to go to their work and they will be able to prepare for future missions.