While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s situation is unusual, their return trip will be pretty routine, as they were already slated to fly home on a SpaceX capsule as part of a scheduled crew rotation.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that the two U.S. astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will soon be retrieved by none other than his new head of the Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk.

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,

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took an opportunity on the campaign trail Tuesday to criticize Elon Musk, telling CNN that the US billionaire “is intervening in favor of right-wing politicians all over Europe.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk's backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it "really disgusting" and said it was hindering democracy in the bloc.

Elon Musk was criticized during the presidential inauguration over a hand gesture that resembled a Nazi salute. At a far-right political rally in Germany, Musk recently made dubious comments that bordered on Holocaust denial.

Elon Musk’s social media company, X, said on Tuesday that it was teaming up with Visa to provide financial services, in a step toward Musk’s plans of expanding it into an “everything app.” The new financial feature,

Visa is the first partner for the platform's “X Money Account" service, which is set to launch later this year, X CEO Linda Yaccarino said in a Tuesday post announcing the news. The offering, Yaccarino noted,

X has inked a partnership with Visa as the Elon Musk-owned social media platform seeks to become an “everything" app that offers peer-to-peer payments and other capabilities.