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President Donald Trump has offered to pay the overtime salary of astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who returned to Earth earlier this week after an unexpected nine-month stay in space, out of his "own pocket".
Williams and Wilmore spent an additional 278 days in space after their week-long mission in June last year turned into a nine-month ordeal following technical glitches in the Boeing spacecraft that flew them to the International Space Station (ISS).
When Trump was asked by a reporter at the White House if the astronauts would receive any extra pay, the President said, "Nobody's ever mentioned this to me. If I have to, I will pay it out of my own pocket."
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“ Think of, if we don’t have him (Musk). You know, there’s only so long — even though they are in the capsule up there — the body starts to deteriorate after nine or 10 months,
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“ And, gets really bad after 14, 15 months with the bones and the blood and all of the things you have been reporting on very well. And, if we don’t have Elon, they could be up there a long time. Who…
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“ Even though they’re in the capsule up there, the body starts to deteriorate after nine or 10 months and gets really bad after 14,15 months, with the bones and the blood and all of the things that…
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