Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swab the orbiting lab for evidence of microorganisms.

Elon Musk says Donald Trump has asked SpaceX to rescue two astronauts who have been in space for more than seven months — even though NASA has said there's a plan in place.

So the return of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore has never been a political story—until this week. And it's a good thing that the two will be in space tomorrow because, as attested to in the tagline for the movie Alien, in space, no one can hear you scream.

As for the spacewalk itself, if you’d like to watch along with the event, it will be livestreamed on NASA’s streaming service, NASA+. Coverage begins at 6:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, with the spacewalk itself beginning at 8 a.m. ET.

President Trump said Tuesday that he “asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space.” “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,

NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in

Trump said he had asked Elon Musk‘s SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a Spac