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Guess what your tax dollars don't pay for? Astronaut overtime

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 20, 2025
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International Space Station and astronaut in outer space over the planet Earth. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

So your spacecraft breaks down and your 8-day space jaunt turns into a 9-month orbital sleepover. Surely NASA backs up a Brinks truck full of hazard pay, right? Sorry!

Turns out our intrepid space explorers Suni Williams and Butch Wilm…

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