Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, who have spent an unexpected eight months on the International Space Station (ISS)—took their first spacewalk together on Thursday. “Here we go,” said Wilmore as he emerged into space,

President Trump just asked Elon Musk to retrieve two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station. But the duo are already slated to come home with SpaceX this spring.

Astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore rode a Boeing Starliner to the station in June 2024 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission. But NASA had concerns about the Starliner after years of delays, plus leaks and thruster problems during its trip to the station, so it came back to Earth without them in September.