Trump calls on Musk to bring stranded NASA astronauts home as tech titan slams Biden for not acting sooner

President Donald Trump has asked first buddy Elon Musk's SpaceX to help bring home two astronauts who remain stuck in space, the billionaire revealed Tuesday.

Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, first landed at the International Space Station on June 5, and have been left stranded there ever since.

The pair's visit was originally only supposed to last eight days, but due to safety concerns, NASA decided to send the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they arrived in back to Earth without anyone inside. 

Earlier this month, Wilmore and Williams were heard telling NASA bigwigs 'eventually, we want to go home.'

In a post on X Tuesday, Musk said SpaceX would work to bring them home as soon as possible.

'Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long,' he lamented.

Commentator Ian Miles Cheong then replied that the Biden administration 'hated you more than they wanted to rescue those astronauts,' which Musk said was 'True.'

But in August, it was decided that the left-behind astronauts would return home on a SpaceX aircraft in 2025. 

NASA had decided at the time that it was too risky to bring Williams and Wilmore back to Earth on Boeing's troubled capsule - and said they would instead arrive back on a SpaceX spacecraft in February.

'This has not been an easy decision, but it is absolutely the right one,' Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator, said at the time. 

The pair had been doomed by a cascade of vexing thruster failures and helium leaks in the Boeing capsule, which marred their trip to the space station.

They ended up in a holding pattern as engineers conducted tests and debated what to do about the trip back.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.