Trump’s comments appeared to turn a typically bipartisan space agency into a political cudgel. His calls for Elon Musk to pick up the astronauts also drew attention because SpaceX, founded by the Trump confidant, had already contracted in August to do so.

NASA astronauts pushed back during an interview on President Trump’s claim last month that former President Biden and his administration abandoned them on the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore were asked Thursday night on CNN if they feel abandoned,

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been in space since June, are correcting the narrative after Donald Trump claimed the Biden administration left the pair stranded in space. Williams and Wilmore boarded the Boeing Starliner last year in what was supposed to be a week-long roundtrip test flight.

President Donald Trump claims that former President Joe Biden left NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore "stranded" aboard the International Space Station (ISS). But CNN's Anderson Cooper fact-checked Trump when Williams and Wilmore appeared on his show on Thursday night,