President Donald Trump offered to shell out overtime pay for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two NASA astronauts who spent over nine months more than expected aboard the International Space Station.
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, NASA confirmed that the astronauts were only paid an extra $5 per day while aboard the spacecraft and did not receive overtime pay.
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