AnyTV News Sunita Williams will get 9 months space overtime money? Know what is the rule

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Astronaut Sunita Williams

Astronaut Sunita Williams: 2 astronauts of American space agency NASA have been stranded at the international space station for the last 9 months. Indian -origin American astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore visited the space station on an 8 -day mission on June last year. Even after the completion of the campaign, both astronauts are stranded there for technical reasons. Due to the technical problem, his return was also delayed several times. It is now expected that on March 19, he will be able to return to Earth from SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Sunita Williams gets overtime salary?

On the one hand, where there is a discussion about Sunita’s return to the land, now the amount received to stay in space for a long time has also become a matter of discussion. When the astronauts went, they were for 8 days, but their duty became 9 months long. In such a situation, the question is whether they will get overtime? This has been answered by a former astronaut.

What did the former astronaut say?

Caddy Kolman, a former NASA astronaut, said in this regard that there is no special overtime salary for astronauts. He said that since astronauts are US government employees, their time in space is considered as any normal work. Passengers get regular salary. In addition, NASA bears the expenses of their food and space station.

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Astronaut Sunita Williams

How much money will you get apart from salary?

Caddy Coleman told a news website Washingtonian that the only additional compensation to astronauts is a daily allowance given for their casual expenses, whose amount is very small. It is believed that it is equal to just $ 4 ie about 347 rupees per day. In the year 2010-11, Caddy Kolman went on a 159-day mission in space, when she received an additional $ 636 or about Rs 55,000 in total.

What did NASA say?

Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore have spent more than 285 days in space. According to this, they will get only 1,100 dollars i.e. about 1 lakh rupees in addition to salary. However, NASA has said that both astronauts are not trapped at the space station, as they are active and working there.