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[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I mean, they only signed up to be there for so long. And are they paid on a contract? If so they are literally just losing money.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago

They're employees of NASA. They receive a salary. They probably get hazard pay as a bonus, though.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why on earth do you think it would work like that?

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

On Earth? That's not very space of you to say

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Because I'm Canadian, I have never worked as an astronaut and it was a mission on a private crew capsule that I know for sure was handled with contracts.

But I wasn't sure, and I was corrected, thanks to the good people of Lemmy.