Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based on the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scale for grades GS-12 through GS-13. Each person's grade is determined according to his/her academic achievements and experience. Currently, a GS-12 starts at $65,140 per year and a GS-13 can earn up to $100,701 per year. Military Astronaut Candidates are assigned to the Johnson Space Center and remain in an active duty status for pay, benefits, leave, and similar military matters.
To quote from NASA's own website (http://astronauts.nasa.gov/content/faq.htm):
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* What is the annual salary for astronauts?
Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based upon the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scale for grades GS-11 through GS-14. The grade is determined in accordance with each individual's academic achievements and experience. Currently a GS-11 starts at $59,493per year and a GS-14 can earn up to $130,257 per year.
Military Astronaut Candidates are detailed to the Johnson Space Center and remain in an active duty status for pay, benefits, leave, and other similar military matters. "
Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based on the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scale for grades GS-12 through GS-13. Each person's grade is determined according to his/her academic achievements and experience. Currently, a GS-12 starts at $65,140 per year and a GS-13 can earn up to $100,701 per year.
Military Astronaut Candidates are assigned to the Johnson Space Center and remain in an active duty status for pay, benefits, leave, and other similar military matters.
To an astronaut in a space craft, the sky appears to be black.
Military astronauts get paid their standard military pay. They are on loan from their service branch to NASA. Most choose to remain with their military bnranch throughout their NASA career. Civilian astronauts get paid on a Civil Service pay scale. Again, it's not much, they they get benefits to make up for the lack of pay.
An astronaut needs the same amount like a normal person on earth just in diffrent contents
An astronaut takes home a salary of $64,724(NASA astronaut).
an astronaut
Of course, that's part of their job!
An astronaut's salary starts around $65,000 and can gradually increase to about $100,000.
An astronaut is a person who travels into space.
cos he farts from his bum too much
an astronaut is someone that goes up in to space
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
To an astronaut in a space craft, the sky appears to be black.
Astronaut Yuri Gagarian
Yep, if an astronaut has mass, they will have inertia.
A person who flies in space is called an astronaut.
Ms. Ride was a paid astronaut selected by, and paid by, NASA. By today's standards, as a highly educated physicist in the space program, she would earn about $100,000 per year as an astronaut, but I cannot say what the income level was at the time of her service in the 1980's.
An astronaut is a commander, pilot, or a crew member of a spacecraft. In Russia an astronaut is known as a cosmonaut.