Trump says he told Elon Musk and SpaceX to ‘go get’ astronauts who have been in space for 7 months. But NASA has said there’s a plan to bring them home.

President Trump announced on Tuesday that he had asked the founder of Spacex El Musk “Go” two NASA astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June pending the trip to Earth.

“I just asked Elon Musk and Spacex” Go “to get” brave astronauts “who were almost abandoned in space by the Biden administration,” Trump wrote in Published on social truth. They were waiting for several months on Space Station. Elon will be soon on his way. We hope everything is safe. Good luck, Elon !!! “

in Posted on XMusk confirmed that Trump asked Spacex to bring astronauts to the house “they were stranded on @space_station as soon as possible.”

“We will do that,” added Musk, who heads the newly created government efficiency management in the Trump administration. “Biden administration has left them there for a long time.”

But astronauts – Sony Williams and Boot Wilmor – It was not abandoned by Biden. NASA had already had such a plan to return astronauts to Earth – using Spacex.

🚀 How did we get here?

In June, William and Wilmmore from Cape Caneeral, Florida, launched the new Starlener in Boeing about what was supposed to be a tester for eight days.

But helium leakage and failure failure have almost denying their arrival at the space station and keeping it in the orbit laboratory since then.

In August, NASA announced that the problems with Starliner were more dangerous than the first thought and that William and Wilmmore would instead return to Earth with a Spacex Crew-9 capsule in February instead of waiting for tests on Starliner.

Then last month, NASA Declare This Spacex need more time to complete the capsule you will need to launch the Crew-10, which will need to reach the regular NASA protocols before leaving Crew-9 space station.

“Spacex Crew-10 from NASA is now targeting any time earlier in late March 2025 to launch four crew members to the International Space Station,” the space agency said in a press statement. “The Crew-9 space mission in the agency will return with NASA astronaut Nick The Hague, Sony Williams, Bots Wilmore, and Roscosmos, Alexander Gorbonov, to Earth after the 10 crew arrived at the tropical laboratory.”

It is not clear how Trump’s direction will affect this time frame. A NASA spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 What astronauts say

While their stay on the space station was unexpectedly extended, Willmore and Williams, like all NASA astronauts, were trained on a long mission.

The couple has repeatedly said that they did not feel “ahead” in space.

“We have a lot of clothes,” Wimor said during a call with NASA officials earlier this month. “We feed well.”

Williams said: “It was my pleasure to work here,” Williams said. “We don’t seem to be liars. In the end, we want to go home, because we have left our families a short time ago, but we have a lot to do while we are here.”

in A call with high school students in its home in Nidham, Mas.Earlier this week, Williams admitted that she forgot some things about what life is on Earth.

“I was here for a long time enough at the moment, I was trying to remember what is like walking,” Williams said. “I didn’t walk.