<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday said he could attend next week's launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon craft in Florida, the first manned space flight from US soil in nearly a decade.</p>.<p>"I'm thinking about going," he told reporters, joking that he'd like them to board the rocket themselves "and get rid of you for a while."</p>.<p>Two US astronauts on the Crew Dragon will take off May 27 from Kennedy Space Center with help from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. They are to dock at the International Space Station, which is currently housing two Russians and one American.</p>.<p>Sanitary conditions are being carefully controled as the United States continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.</p>.<p>US astronauts have been flying to the ISS on Russian Soyuz rockets since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.</p>.<p>This is also notable as the first space flight program to be carried out as a public-private partnership, with SpaceX producing the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Boeing producing the Starliner.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump on Thursday said he could attend next week's launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon craft in Florida, the first manned space flight from US soil in nearly a decade.</p>.<p>"I'm thinking about going," he told reporters, joking that he'd like them to board the rocket themselves "and get rid of you for a while."</p>.<p>Two US astronauts on the Crew Dragon will take off May 27 from Kennedy Space Center with help from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. They are to dock at the International Space Station, which is currently housing two Russians and one American.</p>.<p>Sanitary conditions are being carefully controled as the United States continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic.</p>.<p>US astronauts have been flying to the ISS on Russian Soyuz rockets since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.</p>.<p>This is also notable as the first space flight program to be carried out as a public-private partnership, with SpaceX producing the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Boeing producing the Starliner.</p>