Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and guests at a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024.
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Elon Musk and President Donald Trump took to social media this week declaring that astronauts left at the space station must return “as soon as possible,” despite NASA’s plan to bring the pair back in a couple months on a SpaceX vehicle.
Both blamed the previous presidential administration for the decision NASA made in August to return Boeing’s faulty Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams onboard.
“The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so. Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long,” Musk wrote on X late Tuesday.
“I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX…
