Trump will attend the historic NASA and SpaceX astronaut launch in Florida next week

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• President Donald Trump said he will attend the historic NASA and SpaceX launch at Kennedy Space Center next week, local outlet WESH2 reported.
• This would be the first time NASA has sent astronauts into space in a spacecraft built by a private company.
• It's been nearly a decade since Americans were launched into outer space on US soil. They have been relying on Russian craft to get to the International Space Station.
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President Donald Trump said he will travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to attend the historic NASA and SpaceX launch next week, local outlet WESH-TV reported. 

"Our destiny, beyond the Earth, is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security," Trump said, according to the outlet. 

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