As you may have heard, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spent nine months on the International Space Station stranded in space as they awaited a rescue that would never come. Elon Musk offered then-President Biden his own rocket to go and grab the duo, but Biden declined, simply not wanting to give Musk a PR win while he was so closely connected to Kamala Harris’s opponent, Donald Trump.
However, with Trump in charge, Musk sent his rocket “Dragon” up and retrieved Wilmore and Williams.
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But, as it turns out, the astronauts being up in space for so long would have them build up overtime pay… if they actually qualified for it, which, according to NASA’s policies, they don’t. That’s 286 days worth of extra time in space that they won’t be compensated…
