Elon Musk has promised to bring two stranded NASA astronauts back to Earth “within about four weeks,” accusing the previous administration of abandoning them in space.

The SpaceX founder criticized former President Joe Biden for allegedly leaving Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams stranded on the International Space Station for “political reasons” during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News alongside President Trump.

“At the president’s request or instruction, we are accelerating the return of the astronauts,” Musk stated, adding that it would take “about four weeks” to bring them home.

“They were left up there for political reasons, which is not good… He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space.”

Musk emphasized that SpaceX has “brought astronauts back from the space station many times before, and always successfully.”

In September, SpaceX launched a Crew Dragon capsule to rescue the pair. Although the capsule successfully arrived at the space station, it has not yet been cleared for the return journey with the astronauts on board.

Wilmore and Williams were initially scheduled to stay at the space station for only eight days. However, after an issue was discovered with their Boeing Starliner capsule, they became stranded. They have now been at the space station for 258 days.