by President Donald Trump stated that he would pay for astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to do overtime after they had spent 9 months in space.
The President said on Friday, March 21, Peter Doocy from Fox News that he was never informed that Astronauts would not receive an overtime payment. According to Doocy, Williams and Wilmore, who spent 286 days at the international space station, would receive 5 US dollars a day in hints, which corresponds to additional 1,430 US dollars.
“Nobody ever mentioned that,” said Trump by Forbes. “If I have to, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket.”
“I will take care of it,” added Trump, 78.
At the beginning of this week, NASA informed people in a statement that astronauts, while they are on the ISS, “receive regular, 40-hour salaries at the workplace”, but they “do not receive an overtime or payment of vacation/weekend”.
“During space, the NASA astronauts are official travel orders as federal employees, so that their transport, accommodation and meals are made,” continued the explanation. “You are also Tdy in the long term and receive the intermediate amount for every day you are in space.
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Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams on August 24, 2024
Relatives: Splashdown time! ‘Stranded’ astronauts return to earth after 9 months in space
In front of Williams’ and Wilmores Return to Earth on Tuesday, March 18, Trump accused his predecessor Joe Biden’s long room stay. In a social post on January 28, he said that he asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to “get the two brave astronauts”, which the biden administration gave up practically in space “.
Despite Trump’s statements, NASA has been working with SpaceX for months to bring the astronauts home. In December, NASA also said that it wanted to bring the astronauts “not earlier than at the end of March”.
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US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2025.
In the meantime, Williams and Wilmore rejected the claims they were left. Wilmore spoke to the Anderson Cooper of CNN in February in February and said, although he “Why others think that” they “” for all eventualities we can imagine have come into space “.
“We don’t feel left, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded,” he added.
Relatives: How the NASA astronauts feel when they return to earth
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SpaceX Dragon SpaceCraft, shortly after Nasa -Astronauten Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov had landed on 18th, 2025 off the coast of Tallahasee, Florida.
Wilmore and Williams first arrived at the ISS in June 2024 and originally expected to stay in space for more than 10 days.
After her spaceship had come across mechanical problems, her return was delayed. After weeks of troubleshooting, the spaceship was sent back to earth without it.
After nine months, the couple began back on Tuesday, March 18, at 1:05 a.m. EST and was “really on time” from the international space station – four days after a new crew arrived at the ISS.
Their module splashed safely off the coast of Florida on Tuesday evening, where they were welcomed by both dolphins and their colleagues.
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A representative of NASA did not react immediately to the request of the people for further information on Friday.
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