During a White House cabinet meeting on Thursday, President Donald Trump took a moment to put rockets on the table — literally.
"Before me are some rocket ships. You haven't seen that in this country in a long time," Trump said, likely referring to the fact that NASA has relied on Russian Soyuz rockets to fly astronauts to the International Space Station since the retirement of its space shuttle in 2011 (and at ever-increasing costs).
"Many of the jobs we're doing are privately financed," Trump added. "You know, rich guys — they love rocket ships. And that's good. That's better than us paying for it."
On the table were three large models of competing rockets that may soon carry astronauts to space — perhaps to the moon or Mars — and a small model of the space station.
Source: businessinsider
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