
H.I. #87: Podcast of the Century
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The Unofficial Compensation Package of Become an Astronaut
NASA allows astronauts to bring up personal items that they can sell on the green market. These things were called insurance covers and would be an official envelope with nice printed stuff on it like a picture of the crew commemorating the mission. The envelopes would be split amongst the families because then if they then like died on the moon because they couldn't get life insurance, no one would ensure them so these things would act as life insurance.
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