SpaceX, NASA Launch Astronauts to Space Station as Clouds Stay Just Far Enough Away

After a scrubbed launch on Thursday, four astronauts lifted off from Florida and will dock at the International Space Station on Saturday.

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NASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore do not get overtime for their unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station, according to NASA rules. But they do get $5 a day for “incidentals.”

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Williams and Wilmore Are Not the First Astronauts to Have Been Stuck in Space

From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a variety of reasons over the decades of human spaceflight.

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Bringing Astronauts Home

We explain why two astronauts were stuck in orbit for so long.

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