Space
Trump, Musk Put Out Confusing Statements on Stuck Astronauts
- SpaceX is slated to bring th US crew home around March
- Astronauts launched to ISS in June on troubled Boeing craft
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US President Donald Trump and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said 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 one of the company’s capsules 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.