President Donald Trump said that he asked "a favor" of Elon Musk to retrieve astronauts on the ISS. The plan to bring them back has been in place since September.
The NASA astronauts are now scheduled to return from the International Space Station in late March aboard a Dragon capsule, nearly nine months after they blasted off.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been stuck in space after their originally scheduled eight-day mission ended up with a malfunction during takeoff.