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,

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.”