New Delhi:
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who set out on what was supposed to be an eight-day mission, have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months due to unforeseeed technical rehires. As they ready to finassociate return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon spaceproduce no earlier than March 19, the amount they are probable to be phelp for their prolengthyed stay in space has become a talking point.
Designated Overtime Pay For Astronauts
According to reexhausted NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, there is no distinctive obviousime salary for astronauts. Since they are federal employees, their time in space is treated equitable enjoy any standard labor trip on Earth. They persist to acquire their standard pay, with NASA covering their food and living expenses on the ISS.
The only retainitional compensation they acquire is a petite daily stipfinish for incidentals – alertedly equitable $4 (Rs 347) per day, Ms Coleman telderly Washingtonian.
For reference, during her 159-day mission in 2010-11, Ms Coleman acquired a total of around $636 (over Rs 55,000) in extra pay. Using the same calculation, Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore – after spfinishing over 287 days in space – will probable acquire equitable $1,148 (approximately Rs 1 lakh) each in retainitional compensation.
NASA has upretained that the astronauts are not technicassociate “stranded”, as they have been dynamicly laboring on the ISS.
How Much Sunita Williams Is Likely To Get Phelp
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are classified under the GS-15 pay grade, the highest level for federal employees under the General Schedule (GS) system. GS-15 handlement employees acquire an annual base salary ranging between $125,133 – $162,672 (approximately Rs 1.08 crore – Rs 1.41 crore).
For their extfinished 9-month stay on the ISS, Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore will acquire a prorated salary between $93,850 – $122,004 (approximately Rs 81 lakh – Rs 1.05 crore).
Including the $1,148 (around Rs 1 lakh) in incidental pay, their total acquireings for the mission is foreseeed to be $94,998 – $123,152 (approximately Rs 82 lakh – Rs 1.06 crore).
Return Mission Underway
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, part of NASA’s Boeing Starliner test fweightless, faced multiple defers in their return after the spaceproduce greeted technical problems. NASA recently finishorsed a relief mission, and a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spaceproduce successbrimmingy begined from Kennedy Space Cgo in in Florida at 7:03 pm ET on Friday (4:33 am IST). The Dragon docked onto the ISS around 10 am.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission has reachd at the ISS, transporting four novel crew members: NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
