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> By the time they return, the pair will have logged more than eight months in space. They expected to be gone just a week when they signed up for Boeing’s firs
by Seattle3503 2y ago
> By the time they return, the pair will have logged more than eight months in space. They expected to be gone just a week when they signed up for Boeing’s first astronaut flight that launched in June.
What kind of overtime do you think they are clocking?
- chasd00 2y agoHeh I’d hate to be their families too. Sometimes I travel for work, if a week turned into 8 months it would be mayhem.
- aylmao 2y agoThe return flight will be in February too— they'll be missing thanksgiving, and all the winter holidays oof
- dmix 2y agoI’m sure they’ll just be happy to have them back alive
- mp05 2y agoIt’s almost laughable how the general public tries to apply their own soft feelings to these people built for high-stakes work. None of these people are bothered by this and their families have become accustomed to this sort of thing and too obscenely full of pride to let their own emotions get in the way.
- zamadatix 2y agoWhile I'm sure it can't be measured as a convenience from the family in any way you slice it I'm not sure one can compare the way they plan their and timing expectations around an orbital test flight to that of a standard work trip.
- fracus 2y agoAnd wasn't the mission already on the schedule? The title says "launches mission for 2 astronauts.."
- largbae 2y agoThe original mission was to bring 4. Two astronauts got bumped to make room for the Starliner crew.
- dools 2y agoAnd will that overtime take into account the effect of time dilation?!
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThey are probably salary, not hourly. I wonder if they astronauts are like the military where they get extra on deployment.
- lanewinfield 2y agoSalary is set by the year, and with the calculated 6.7 milliseconds of time dilation in the reverse direction (i.e. they will be 6.7ms younger when they arrive), sounds like they should be docked a cent or so.
- jamesjyu 2y agoThis brings up an interesting question of salary for near-lightspeed travel. Is it Earth's frame of reference, or the astronauts?
- dools 2y agoYou'll have to take that up with HR: Human Relativity.
- sobellian 2y agoNaturally, a firm located in the local frame of reference has a comparative advantage when it comes to employment. Remote work just isn't viable when you can't even agree on simultaneity.
- pixl97 2y agoDear sir Your packets are too blueshifted for my receiver to decode, please slow down.
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- jajko 2y agoThere is some irreversible degradation happening in space to human body, discussed recently on similar topic here. If they have ie measurably messed up heart or eye sight they could potentially sue Boeing, maybe.
- dyauspitr 2y agoHow much do astronauts get paid anyways? According to chatGPT they don’t get overtime pay though might receive bonuses for situations like this.