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.”
In a letter addressed to the next NASA administrator—who, if Trump’s nomination is confirmed, will be Shift4 CEO and SpaceX ally Jared Isaacman—Nelson highlighted the space agency’s work during his tenure and urged continuity. He emphasized NASA’s responsibility to return Americans to the moon and land them on Mars for the first time.
So the return of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore has never been a political story—until this week. And it's a good thing that the two will be in space tomorrow because, as attested to in the tagline for the movie Alien, in space, no one can hear you scream.
Bill Nelson has stepped ... is close to the state's famous Space Coast, which is home to both KSC and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In January 1986, Nelson flew on the STS-61-C mission ...
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.
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.
"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.
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.
AI-powered chatbot, DeepSeek’s app quickly topped Apple’s App Store charts, a notable achievement given U.S. restrictions on Chinese access to advanced AI chips. Shares in major tech firms such as Nvidia fell sharply,
NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025.