NASA affirmed on Wednesday a plan it set last year to work with Elon Musk's SpaceX in returning two astronauts from the International Space Station, saying it will do so "as soon as practical," the day after President Donald Trump suggested he wants a quicker return for the crew.

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to Earth on a Crew Dragon capsule this spring

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 Butch and Suni will be in space tomorrow, because, as attested to in the tagline for the movie Alien, in space no one can hear you scream.