This is a fun, quirky story about how the two astronauts who were unable to get home for a year were given their government allotted per diem.
"While in space, NASA astronauts are on official travel orders as federal employees."
This means that in addition to their annual salary — about $152,258, according to NASA — Mr. Wilmore and Ms. Williams received around $1,430 for their 286 days in space.
Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore did not exactly see their extended stay as a hardship. "This is my happy place," Ms. Williams told reporters in September. "I love being up here in space. It's just fun, you know?"
Astronaut Clayton Anderson who also had an extended stay in the early 2000s added "it IS a government job with government pay. I would have done WAY better with mileage!"
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