NASA Astronauts Stuck On ISS Respond To Musk's Claim He Offered To Get Them Home Early

[Judi Lynn]

If Musk did make the offer, nobody at NASA seems to have heard it.

James Felton
Senior Staff Writer

Edited
by
Maddy Chapman

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have said they were unaware of any offer by Elon Musk to bring them back to Earth early, in a press conference from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday.

Last year, on June 5, Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore departed for the ISS on board Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The trip was only supposed to last eight days, but due to problems with the Starliner ship, the astronauts were unable to return on their departure date, and the spacecraft returned uncrewed.

Though not ideal, the situation was not without precedent. Astronauts and cosmonauts have had to stay longer on various space stations after similar problems.

In September 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio became the first NASA astronaut to stay in space for over a year. In 2022, Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin became stuck on the ISS when the cosmonauts' ship became damaged by a meteoroid, resulting in a coolant leak. A second Soyuz spacecraft was sent to return the three to Earth safely. However, the crew could not simply leave the ISS, and remained to conduct the work which would have been carried out by a fresh crew delivery in the now-empty Soyuz craft.

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[riversedge]

1. whose the bigger LIAR--Musk or Trump???!!!

Not matter--as they both lie endlessly!!