article_snippet.sent: We believe that President Kennedy's courageous leadership in space exploration holds lessons that can help guide We forward.
article_snippet.sent: In 1962, President Kennedy, speaking at Rice University, described the space program that President Kennedy had first announced when President Kennedy asked the Congress to support President Kennedy ambitious goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
article_snippet.sent: Opening President Kennedy speech, President Kennedy stated simply the effect of man's scientific pursuit:  "The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
article_snippet.sent: President Kennedy encountered the same dilemma:  
article_snippet.sent: Kennedy told the crowd at Rice that the pursuit of a goal that seemed impossible was valuable precisely because it would be so hard to accomplish.
article_snippet.sent: we choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but
article_snippet.sent: because it is hard," Kennedy said.