What was the total annual salary of Neil Armstrong, the first astronaunt to walk the moon on July 20,1969?

queproblema

I don't believe this information is available to the public. "Salaries for civilian astronaut candidates are based on the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scales for grades GS-11 through GS-14, and are set in accordance with each individual's academic achievements and experience." http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/factsheets/asseltrn.html You would have to try to find out how much money that was in 1969. I tried and came up with nothing. Feb 08 09, 9:38 PM

zbeckabee

$30,054 This was Apollo: On the night of July 20, 1969, inside a bulky white spacesuit, a thirty-eight-year-old native of Wapakoneta, Ohio, descended a nine-rung ladder toward the moon. The man stood five feet, eleven inches and weighed 165 pounds. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. He was a husband and a father of two. He had flown seventy-eight combat missions in Korea as a Naval aviator. His hobbies included playing the ukelele, and his $30,054 annual salary as a civil servant was nearly the combined yearly income of his Air Force crewmates -- Colonel Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, who flew to the surface with him, and command module pilot Lt. Colonel Michael Collins. “That’s one small step for man,” Neil A. Armstrong said, as he placed his left boot on the moon. “One giant leap for mankind.” http://books.google.com/books?id=Scid46L2OwIC&pg=PR24&lpg=PR24&dq=neil+armstrong+annual+income&source=web&ots=ebnK_FcTEz&sig=sDxIfrdjifGffvqifufvewhfmZc&hl=en&ei=jauPSc_vA4r2sAOUhbSOCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result Feb 08 09, 10:12 PM