NASA astronauts who returned from space after nine months will visit White House

The two NASA astronauts who spent nine unplanned months in space with visit the White House after the recover from their journey, President Trump says.

Butch Wilmore, 62, and Suni Williams, 59, returned to Earth on Tuesday evening –  278 days behind schedule on Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule after being stranded in space since last June because the Boeing return craft on which they were scheduled to return had defects.

“Number one, they have to get better,” Trump said on the Fox News Channel. "You know, when you’re up there and you have no pull in your muscle, you have no gravity, you can lift 1,000 pounds," he said. "They have to get better. It’s going to be a little bit tough for them. It’s not easy. They were up there a long time, and when they do, they’ll come to the Oval Office."