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00:02The US space agency, NASA's astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore are on their way back to Earth.
00:10Both of them who went on their 8-day mission have been stuck at the International Space Station, or ISS, for 9 months now.
00:16To take them back, NASA has sent a special spacecraft,
00:20on which Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore can return to Earth by March 19.
00:26On March 17, Elon Musk shared a video on social media platform X,
00:30in which Sunita and Butch thanked the Trump government and Musk.
00:56Let me tell you that NASA's astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore were on NASA's 8-day mission.
01:07Last year, on June 5, they went to the International Space Station.
01:11They had to return to Earth in just a week.
01:14But due to malfunction in the Boeing Starliner, both of them got stuck there.
01:20They have been stuck at the ISS for more than 9 months.
01:24To bring them back, SpaceX Dragon is being used.
01:28SpaceX Crew Dragon craft has arrived at the ISS to pick them up.
01:34NASA has said that this spacecraft will arrive on the Florida coast at 5.57 pm on Tuesday evening,
01:43according to the time of India, on March 19, Wednesday at 3.27 pm.
01:51So the question arises, and there is a lot of talk about it,
01:55that due to getting stuck on the ISS, NASA will give extra salary to both astronauts
02:00on giving more time to the mission than the fixed period.
02:04And if he gives, how much will it be?
02:06However, other astronauts who have worked in NASA have excluded this fact
02:11that both of them are stuck at the space station.
02:13They say that they were not stuck there, but were actively working for NASA during this time.
02:21And it has been said that NASA's astronauts were Catherine Grace and Caddy Coleman,
02:27who have now retired.
02:28He told a news agency that astronauts do not get any separate salary over time.
02:37As far as Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore are stuck on the ISS,
02:41both are collective employees.
02:44Their time in space is considered to be like any regular walking trip on Earth.
02:50During this time, they get their regular salary.
02:53At the same time, NASA spends their food and accommodation on the ISS.
02:57They get a small daily stipend for emergency expenses.
03:02And you will be very surprised when we tell you its amount.
03:06It can be called an extra compensation.
03:09They give NASA apart from salary.
03:11And it is being said that the stipend is only 4 dollars every day,
03:16which is 347 rupees.
03:19Coleman explained that he was on a 169-day mission in 2010-11.
03:24During this time, he got a total of about 636 dollars,
03:28that is, 55,000 rupees as an extra salary.
03:32If you keep this calculation in mind,
03:34then Williams and Willmore have spent more than 287 days in space.
03:38In this way, everyone will get an extra compensation of only 1148 dollars,
03:47that is, 100,000 rupees.
03:49And this is for 9 months.
03:51Coleman also clarified that NASA has said for Williams and Willmore
03:54that both of them are not technically stuck
03:57because they are actively working on the ISS.
04:01So they have refused to get stuck.
04:03If we leave the matter of compensation,
04:05then it will be interesting to know
04:07how much salary will Sunita Williams get in the end.
04:11In fact, NASA's astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore
04:15come in the GS-15 salary grade of the General Schedule System of the United States.
04:19The GS system has the highest level for number of employees.
04:23Government employees under GS-15
04:26get an annual salary of about 1.08 crore to 1.41 crore,
04:30that is, 1 crore and 41 lakh rupees.
04:35Well, the good news is that
04:37Williams and Willmore, NASA's astronaut Nick Heck
04:40and Russian astronaut Alexander Gorbunov
04:45are going to return to Earth after boarding the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
04:50The matter of salary was very interesting.
04:56Everyone wanted to know this.
04:58So we thought why not tell you
05:00that if they are stuck for so long,
05:02will they get an extra salary or not.
05:04So this is a very happy thing.
05:06If we remove the salary part
05:08that they will get compensation or not.
05:10This is a happy thing that after 9 months
05:12of being stuck on the ISS,
05:14finally they are coming back to Earth.
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