You Will Never Guess What the Stranded Astronauts Got Paid for Their Trouble

During their months-long extended stay on the International Space Station, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore didn't get overtime — but they did get a meager $5 per day allowance on top of their salaries. In a statement to the New York Times, a NASA spokesperson revealed that the stranded pair — who just splashed down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule after spending an extra 278 days aboard the ISS than expected due to the malfunctioning of Boeing's cursed Starliner rocket — were not eligible for any overtime pay. In fact, astronauts on the ISS don't ever receive overtime, or extra pay on holidays and weekends, as spokesperson Jim Russell of the space agency's Space Operations Mission Directorate told the newspaper. "While in space, NASA astronauts are on official travel orders as federal employees," Russell explained. As such, they — and seemingly their fellow astronauts — receive the same $5 "incidentals" allowance set by the Internal Revenue Service for any travel, regardless ... Read full article.