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From Breitbart: In a viral video shared by both President Donald Trump and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who are being rescued by a SpaceX mission after being stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) by Boeing and Joe Biden, thanked President Trump and Musk for their support in bringing them back to Earth.
Elon Musk, the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO, recently posted a video on his X platform featuring stranded NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore expressing their gratitude to U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisor, Elon Musk. The 25-second clip, captioned “Stranded NASA astronauts thank Elon Musk and Trump,” has gone viral, amassing over 41.8 million views and 341,000 likes just on Musk’s post alone, with many other posts of the vidoe going viral as well.
In the video, Sunita Williams can be heard saying, “We are coming back before long, so don’t make those plans without me. We’ll be back before too long.” Her crewmate, Butch Wilmore, added, “I tell you, well all of us have utmost respect for Mr. Musk and obviously respect and admiration for President of United States Donald Trump. We appreciate them, we appreciate all what they do for us, human spaceflight for our nation, and we’re thankful for positions they are in.”
As of Monday evening, the video now has over 46 million views.
Musk has previously stated that he offered to go get the astronauts and bring them back home months ago, but the former Biden administration rejected his offer.
Williams and Wilmore are now scheduled to depart the space station on Tuesday at 1:05 a.m. ET aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule. Coming with them will be NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who are now completing a six-month mission at the space station.
The capsule is expected to splash down off the coast of Florida at 5:57 p.m. ET.
❤️🚀🚀❤️
pic.twitter.com/aAkJRKsu1Q— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2025
On January 28, a week after Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk had announced that SpaceX would be going to rescue them.
“The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so. Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long,” Musk wrote.
The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so.
Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 28, 2025
The same day, President Trump confirmed in a Truth Social post, “I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to “go get” the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on @Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!”
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