May 17, 2025
Despite being in space around the clock, NASA astronauts are paid a 40-hour-per-week salary. When two astronauts were stranded in space for more than nine months from 2024–25, they only received $5 per extra day in space (totaling $1,430 each).
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Space seems pretty empty. After all, much of the volume of the universe is a vacuum that will kill you. But humanity hasn’t taken only memories and left only footprints on the final frontier. We’ve left a lot of junk up there. In Earth’s orbit itself, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network is tracking
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