The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has offered to pay personally the extra hours that astronauts have made Butch Wilmore and Suni Williamsthat last week they returned to Earth after nine months at the International Space Station (ISS) when their original mission was scheduled to last just over a week.
Speaking to the press last Friday, Trump was contrary to heard that astronauts would only receive additional $ 1,430 ($ 5 per day, about 4.63 euros) for the extra time they have passed in space. “No one has never mentioned this to me. Is that all? It is not much for what they had to happen. If I have to do it, I will pay him on my pocket, “said the New York tycoon.
His expected return to Earth finally occurred last Tuesday, when Wilmore and Williams successfully merited off the coast of Florida. Your stay at the Space Station It has been an issue that has politicized in the USwith Trump and his collaborator Elon Musk accusing the previous administration of Joe Biden to leave his fate to the crew abandoned.
However, although there were speculation about whether they had been trapped in the ISS and a lot of media attention to the bad nickname They always had a safe alternative To leave the station in case of emergency.
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