NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on their way home Tuesday after being stranded on the International Space Station for 286 days.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were on their way home Tuesday after being stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) orbital laboratory for 286 days.
Their return is thanks in no small part to the combined drive and ambition of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to “go get them.”
The pair decided to accelerate the astronauts’ return and laid the blame for their troubles on the tardy Biden administration.
The replacement crew’s brand new SpaceX capsule still wasn’t ready to fly, so SpaceX subbed it with a used one, hurrying things along by weeks.
