Posted on 12/12/2018 8:24:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
It's possible that Curry was joking. But, if he was being serious, NASA would like to help the two-time NBA MVP and three-time champion see the light, as The New York Times reported yesterday.
"There's lots of evidence NASA landed 12 American astronauts on the moon from 1969-1972. We'd 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," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel told Space.com via email.
"We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control," Beutel added. "During his visit, he can see first-hand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we’re doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay."
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly also reached out to Curry, saying via Twitter today (Dec. 11), "Steph, so much respect for you, but re the moon-landing thing, let's talk. DM me."
The returned moon rocks are just the tip of the Apollo-evidence iceberg. For example, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has photographed multiple Apollo landing sites, showing pieces of hardware and moon-rover tracks on the lunar surface.
NASA officials also note that "all the Apollo missions were independently tracked by England and Russia (our allies and enemies), both of whom sent letters of congratulations after the moon landings. In the midst of a heated space race, the Russians would have called our bluff if the landings had not actually happened."
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I was ... and I remember why they were canceled. The demonicRATs wanted a cradle to grave welfare state. This time, we must tell latter-day Ralph Abernathys to shove it.
Remember, half the Population in this Country Votes Democrat.
Since when are pictures of Saturn covered with craters?
Yep. Millions of people have said the lunar landing never happened. Why does Del Curry’s kid get the invite for a special your?
Curry was at Davidson College for 3 years. Did not graduate. Has expressed interest in continuing studies to get his degree, but scheduling has been a major obstacle.
He is a devout, unapologetic Christian.
Married to a childhood sweetheart, also a devout Christian, and has 3 children.
Has played his entire NBA career for Golden State, which surrounds him with San Fran newspapers and reporters.
I hear more and more of this skepticism. “Common sense” suggests to people that it’s 50 years later and we can’t get people there now, how could it be possible 50 years ago.
ML/NJ
It was a different time. For example, when ‘the bomb’ was dropped on Hiroshima it was a total surprise to the world. No one talked.
When magazine publishers figured out something was happening in Oak Ridge Tn years ago (because Mountain people weren't subscribing to Scientific American in such high percentages) they were told to keep it to themselves - and they did.
It wasn't like today when anyone will sellout their country for 5 minutes of fame (down from the old fifteen minutes) There were also Germans who came over after the war who worked on the space program... and that was also kept secret.
I don’t know...I just picked a planet...There are plenty of moons and planets out there that have these craters...
Strike Saturn off and move on to the moon etc...
People who believe we didn’t go to the Moon aren’t missing a few facts they can be filled in on, they’re missing a few screws that aren’t coming back.
Fair enough .. move on to Saturn’s moons. All of ‘em ... cratered like any other hard surface. Earth has a bunch of impact craters, more than most folks know about. Most are eroded and overgrown, as you noted.
I only believe what the dog tells me.
Baby, it’s cold outside.
My father worked on the LEM with one of those German scientists.... we moved from Long Island to live just outside White Sands, New Mexico... to finalize before launch.
We lived in a desert location for 3 or 4 years... watched the landing on an old black and white.
My father was extremely proud of being part of such... and... was not a man to lie... that’s enough for me to believe it was real...
Yes, but ... they definitely do exist on earth, but the smaller and older they are, the more they've been eroded away.
Ask them about the Concorde: 15 years ago you could fly across the Atlantic at Mach 2; now you can't. Why? Easy: technology that doesn't pay for itself eventually shuts down when the financing goes away.
Apollo was exactly the same. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Over billions of years, geologic activity on Earth erases impact craters. It’s the same reason you don’t see any impact craters on Jupiter‘s moon Io, which is the most geologically active body in the solar system.
You sure “educated” is the proper term?
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