Trump asks Musk to 'go get' the two stranded NASA astronauts stuck at space station: 'Good luck Elon'
Trump asks Musk to 'go get' the two stranded NASA astronauts stuck at space station: 'Good luck Elon'
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President Donald Trump has asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to 'go get' two astronauts who remain stuck in space. 'I have just asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to "go get" the two brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned by the Biden administration,' he wrote on his Truth Social platform Tuesday evening.
![[Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stuck at the International Space Station since June 5. They are pictured giving a news conference in July]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/23/94617735-14335679-image-a-17_1738107119853.jpg)
'They have been waiting many months on [the] Space Station,' he continued. 'Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe,' the president said. 'Good luck Elon!!!'. The 53-year-old billionaire vowed in a post to retrieve Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, 'as soon as possible.'.
![[Musk vowed in a post to retrieve Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, 'as soon as possible']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/22/94616473-14335679-image-a-10_1738104481181.jpg)
He also hit out at former President Joe Biden for not acting sooner. 'Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long,' Musk lamented. President Donald Trump has asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to 'go get' two astronauts who remain stuck in space.
![[Musk hit out at former President Joe Biden for not acting sooner]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/23/94617737-14335679-image-a-16_1738107114419.jpg)
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stuck at the International Space Station since June 5. They are pictured giving a news conference in July. Musk vowed in a post to retrieve Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, 'as soon as possible'.
![[Commentator Ian Miles Cheong then replied that the Biden administration 'hated you more than they wanted to rescue those astronauts,' which Musk said was 'True']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/23/94617569-14335679-image-a-15_1738107060991.jpg)
But Musk's spacecraft company had been tasked in August with bringing the two astronauts back to Earth in February after NASA officials deemed Boeing's Starliner was not up to the mission. Yet Williams' and Wilmore's replacements are not set to arrive at the International Space Station until late March or early April - meaning that the stranded astronauts will have to stay until then to conduct a handover.
![[Williams and Wilmore had been doomed by a cascade of vexing thruster failures and helium leaks in the Boeing capsule, which marred their trip to the space station]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/28/23/94617079-14335679-image-a-14_1738106656688.jpg)
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