Somebody Tell El Neil

...Wait, he already kind of predicted the Roooshians might be better at capitalism than the late-stage U.S.....

Beginning in about 1993, every cosmonaut who flew to Mir did so with a signed contract. The contract, negotiated with the cosmonaut's legal representative, laid out exactly what the cosmonaut would do in space: how many experiments, how many spacewalks. The contract also detailed precisely how much each failure aboard the station -- failure to follow an order, failure to carry out a spacewalk, failure to perform an experiment -- would dock the cosmonaut's bonus. [...]To the cosmonauts, the bonus was all-important. One year spent working on the ground might earn a salary of $20,000 [...].* But the typical flight bonus was $30,000[...].

Before [...][Flight Director] Viktor Blagov [...] could order a cosmonaut to perform an extra experiment in orbit, he had to negotiate a new contractual clause, inevitably containing more money, with the cosmonaut's legal representative.
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* NASA astronauts, by contrast, earn between $48,000 and $103,000, depending on their government employment level.

--Dragonfly, pp. 63 - 64

The Russians still keep their spaceflight program going by odd jobs and duct tape -- but, by golly, they do keep it going.