President Trump on Friday urged he would pay additional time prices to the astronauts who returned from area this week.
Fox Information’s Peter Doocy instructed Trump that the astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, didn’t obtain additional time pay for the additional days they have been on the Worldwide House Station, noting they have been presupposed to obtain $5 a day, which quantities to $1,430 in further pay for 286 days.
“Nobody ever mentioned this to me. If I have to, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket? OK, I’ll get it for them,” Trump stated. “Is that all? That’s not a lot. For what they had to go through,” the president added.
He then thanked SpaceX’s Elon Musk for returning the astronauts, who made splashdown Tuesday on Earth.
A SpaceX crew with replacements for the 2 astronauts arrived at area station Friday night, setting in movement their journey again house. NASA confirmed Williams and Wilmore’s arrival with an internet video of the spacecraft off the coast of Florida.
“Think of, if we don’t have him. You know, there’s only so long — even though they’re in the capsule up there — the body starts to deteriorate after nine or 10 months,” Trump stated Friday. “And, gets really bad after 14, 15 months with the bones and the blood and all of the things you’ve been reporting on very well. And, if we don’t have Elon, they could be up there a long time. Who else is going to get them?”
Trump additionally introduced up that Musk’s Tesla electrical automobile firm has been the goal of vandalization and different violence, evaluating the violence to the riots on Jan. 6, 2021. Musk, a high White Home adviser, has change into a bogeyman for the administration as critics blame him for the efforts to chop federal employees and dismantle companies.
