Jan 28, 2025 6:33 PM CST 1 minute & 30 seconds read time TL;DR: Elon Musk announced that President Trump requested SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS due to concerns with Boeing's Starliner. NASA clarified the astronauts are not stranded but opted for SpaceX's Dragon for safety. NASA's decision followed unresolved issues with Starliner's valve performance. Elon Musk has said that President Trump has requested that SpaceX bring the 2 astronauts that are currently stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) back home "as soon as possible". In a post on X, the SpaceX and Tesla boss said "The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space Station as soon as possible. We will do so", while adding "terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long". 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. The US space agency has repeatedly said that the NASA astronauts are not "stranded" but rather that Starliner doesn't have enough assurances around it to support a crewed trip back to Earth.