{"id":18238,"date":"2018-12-12T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/after-questioning-moon-landings-nba-star-stephen-curry-gets-an-invite-from-nasa-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:13:11","slug":"after-questioning-moon-landings-nba-star-stephen-curry-gets-an-invite-from-nasa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/after-questioning-moon-landings-nba-star-stephen-curry-gets-an-invite-from-nasa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After questioning moon landings, NBA star Stephen Curry gets an invite from NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_274656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274656\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-274656\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_2931-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_2931-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_2931-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_2931-1240x827.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-274656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NBA star Stephen Curry speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016. (GeekWire Photo \/ Taylor Soper)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One way to get an tour of Johnson Space Center\u2019s high-security Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is to question whether people landed on the moon at all. At least that strategy works if you\u2019re an NBA basketball star like Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry.<\/p>\n<p>It all started on Monday, with Curry\u2019s riffs on \u201cWinging It,\u201d a basketball-centric podcast on The Ringer. Curry and other basketball players touched on a variety of topics, ranging from golf simulators to dinosaur sounds. After wondering how scientists know what sounds dinosaurs made, Curry segued to the moon-hoax controversy (at around 46:46 in the podcast):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Curry:<\/strong> \u201cWe ever been to the moon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Others:<\/strong> \u201cNope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curry:<\/strong> \u201cThey gonna come get us now, but I don\u2019t think so either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Host Annie Finberg:<\/strong> \u201cYou don\u2019t think so?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curry:<\/strong> \u201cMm-mm. \u2026 You talking \u2019bout we took something to the moon? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/winging-it\/episodes\/f5554033-b296-4c3c-8164-e0b5c2207e5f\/embed\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThen the conversation turned to 1990s-era bag phones. But the repartee rebounded on the internet, so much so that NASA jumped up to provide an assist. Here\u2019s what Allard Beutel, a spokesperson for the space agency, said in an emailed statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s lots of evidence NASA landed 12 American astronauts on the moon from 1969 \u2013 1972. We\u2019d love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets. We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see first-hand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we\u2019re doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moon-hoax claims have been swirling around the conspiracy-loving corners of the internet for decades, despite efforts by NASA and other folks such as \u201cBad Astronomer\u201d reality-checker Phil Plait to beat them down. Curry even name-checked film director Stanley Kubrick, who was supposedly in on the faked TV coverage.<\/p>\n<p>In his email, Beutel pointed to a NASA webpage that rounds up resources refuting fake-moon claims. And if further evidence is required, the photos of Apollo moon landing sites&nbsp;produced by NASA\u2019s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (which is a mission managed by Arizona State University) should help put Curry\u2019s doubts to rest.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll be even fresher evidence coming in over the next few years, due to the expected rise of commercial lunar landings. A Pittsburgh-based company called Astrobotic has even talked about revisiting Apollo 11\u2019s Tranquility Base, although it\u2019s not clear whether that\u2019ll be on the itinerary anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Will Curry pick up the ball and take that NASA tour? If it were me,&nbsp;saying yes would be a slam-dunk. And Curry just might feel the same way, based on the emoji he tweeted today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1072586407984685056&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2018%2Fquestioning-moon-landings-nba-star-stephen-curry-gets-invite-nasa%2F&amp;sessionId=3040840df85414eeb0b2d33e7412d8f2fad4dabc&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1072586407984685056\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782802057881429147=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"art\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude0e https:\/\/t.co\/9RrIzk1Kp4<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) December 11, 2018<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Bleacher Report and CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA star Stephen Curry speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016. (GeekWire Photo \/ Taylor Soper) One way to get an tour of Johnson Space Center\u2019s high-security Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is to question whether people landed on the moon at all. At least that strategy works if you\u2019re an NBA basketball star like Golden State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1651,5105,5107,625,190,21,4029,5091],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apollo","tag-basketball","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-space-history","tag-sports-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}