Washington DC: Tech mogul Elon Musk on Tuesday (local time) said US President Donald Trump has asked his company SpaceX to bring back two Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore – who have been stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for months – as soon as possible.
Elon Musk issued separate statements Tuesday night in the US, claiming that SpaceX will “go get” two astronauts on the International Space Station “as soon as possible,” despite NASA’s already announced plans to bring them home on a SpaceX capsule around March.
SpaceX is already on the hook to return Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, the two astronauts Musk and Trump are presumably referencing in their social media posts and who have received increased media attention over their extended mission in orbit. Williams and Wilmore have been living on the space station since early June after arriving on a Boeing Co. Starliner capsule, becoming the first crew to fly on the vehicle as part of a critical test flight that was meant to last roughly a week.
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