President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress on February 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Getty) <\/p>\n
During his address to Congress on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump delivered a brief line suggesting that America should resume its human exploration of space. <\/p>\n
Towards the conclusion of Trumps remarks, the president talked about Americas centennial in 1876, when citizens gathered in Philadelphia to celebrate and inventors showed offtheir creations, including the telephone and the typewriter. <\/p>\n
Trump then looked ahead to Americas 250th anniversary, listing off a number of things that America may be able to celebrate by then, including cures to illnesses and millions being lifted from welfare. <\/p>\n
The president then said, American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream. <\/p>\n
Before Trumps address, it was reported that the president would officially call for new manned space exploration. In actuality, there was only a brief reference to space travel, and Trump did not propose anything specific or place much emphasis on this statement. <\/p>\n
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