Trump Tasks Elon Musk To Bring Home Stranded Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore |Firstpost America |N18G US President Donald Trump has tasked billionaire Elon Musk to bring back stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station.

NASA on Wednesday (local time) said it was working with billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX to safely return the astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who are for months struck at International Space Station (ISS),

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June 2024 for what was initially an eight-day mission. Due to propulsion system issues, NASA deemed Starliner unsafe for their return and reassigned them to SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission in September.

Donald Trump asks Elon Musk's SpaceX to bring back stranded Nasa astronauts from International Space Station - US president says he has asked Elon Musk for help to return stranded astronauts ‘as soon

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

US President Donald Trump has criticized the Biden administration for "abandoning" two NASA astronauts currently stranded on the International Space Station.

In a post on X Tuesday, Musk blamed former president Biden and his administration for the delay in the astronauts' return.

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

Donald Trump demanded SpaceX boss Elon Musk “go get” two NASA astronauts who, the president claims, were left “abandoned in space” by the Biden Administration.

President Trump just asked Elon Musk to retrieve two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station. But the duo are already slated to come home with SpaceX this spring.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday night he had asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a SpaceX capsule in March.