Donald Trump demanded SpaceX boss Elon Musk “go get” two NASA astronauts who, the president claims, were left “abandoned in space” by the Biden Administration.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday said that US President Donald Trump had asked him to facilitate the return of the two Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on the space station since June 2024,

The two NASA astronauts were scheduled to fly out on the Starliner first on 14 June, and then on 26 June last year, but their return was cancelled each time after the spacecraft suffered multiple hardware issues including helium leaks and malfunctioning thrusters.