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.

President Donald Trump asked SpaceX Founder Elon Musk to bring astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth, after they've spent months on the International Space Station.

I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS since June 2024 after arriving on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft as part of the Crew Flight Test mission. NASA decided that they would come home on Dragon after " uncertainties " surrounding Starliner.

Renowned NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are still stuck in space at the International Space Station (ISS) and in a latest development, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and NASA asserted that when will they finally coming back to earth again.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has left the building, and while President Trump’s nominee awaits a confirmation hearing, the head of Kennedy Space Center will keep things afloat.

"America is leading humanity back to the Moon, onward to Mars, and into a golden age of space exploration," Nelson wrote,

Elon Musk wrote in an X post that Donald Trump had asked SpaceX to bring Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore home.

Elon Musk launches Starship test flight with Donald Trump watching ... It's anything but routine," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson posted on X after the accident. "That's why these tests are so important." "Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch ...

Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity. Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and… — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2025

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after serving on Boeing’s Starliner crewed test flight, are conducting a spacewalk Thursday. The

Even so, Mr Ellison remains the world’s fifth-richest man, and Oracle the third-biggest software firm. He has a thing or two to teach fellow tech titans, in particular his friend Elon Musk, about staying power.