While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s situation is unusual, their return trip will be pretty routine, as they were already slated to fly home on a SpaceX capsule as part of a scheduled crew rotation.

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.”

SpaceX’s ambitious Starship rocket program faced another challenge as its latest test ended with the spacecraft disintegrating mid-air. The uncrewed rocket, launched from SpaceX’s South Texas facility,

Americans are not loving tech billionaire Elon Musk’s role in President Trump’s administration. A new Quinnipiac University Poll, released Wednesday, found that a majority of voters disapprove of Musk’s prominent role with the Trump administration.

President Trump said Tuesday that he “asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space.” “I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration,