Trump asks Elon Musk to return 2 Starliner astronauts from the ISS for NASA — but they already have a SpaceX ride home
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will rescue two ‘stranded’ astronauts. Here’s why that is confusing
Elon Musk says Trump told SpaceX to bring Starliner astronauts home as soon as possible
The astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Boeing Starliner are in good health, a NASA spokesperson has said, dismissing fake online reports of their death. The false narrative also includes false quotes attributed to Elon Musk.
In a post on X Tuesday, Musk blamed former president Biden and his administration for the delay in the astronauts' return.
Trump and Musk keep referring to Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as 'stranded' and 'abandoned,' while there is already a plan in place to bring them home.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said President Trump has asked the company to bring home the two NASA astronauts from Boeing’s Starliner mission on board the ISS “as soon as possible.”
The four American astronauts aboard the ISS, including the Boeing Starliner crew, spoke to USA TODAY in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social that he's asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts he says were "abandoned" by former President Joe Biden on the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS since June 2024 after arriving on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft as part of the Crew Flight Test mission. NASA decided that they would come home on Dragon after " uncertainties " surrounding Starliner.
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Posts by President Trump and Elon Musk roiled the space community, raising the prospect of an earlier-than-planned return for the Starliner crew.
Then along comes Musk, with one of the world's loudest microphones, shouting that NASA's astronauts are stranded and that President Trump wants them saved. It's a bombshell thing for the founder of SpaceX, who has become a close adviser to Trump, to say publicly.
President Donald Trump said on social media Tuesday that he asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to "go get" stranded astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station, blaming the
NASA reaffirms it is working with SpaceX to bring back the Starliner crew from the International Space Station. Read more.
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