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

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 Wilmore, who just splashed down after their involuntarily extended vacation on the International Space Station, got paid exactly what any random bureaucrat gets for a Hampton Inn stay in Toledo — a whopping $5 per day in 'incidentals.' — Read the rest
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