Did Man Walk On The Moon? NASA Willing To Prove To Golden State Warriors Guard Steph Curry That It Happened

Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry recently expressed skepticism in a podcast about the 1969 moon landing, prompting NASA to respond that it is willing to show Curry proof that it happened with a visit to the lunar lab in Houston.

"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 [Houston] Rockets," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel told the New York Times.

"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're doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay."

Curry, 30, who stated in the podcast that he isn't interested in spreading conspiracies, says he will "one-thousand percent" take NASA up on its offer while explaining that he wasn't serious when he made the statement.

Curry made his moon-landing comments on the Ringer's "Winging It" podcast with fellow NBA players Vince Carter and Kent Bazemore. Curry asked, "We ever been to the moon?" which received a "no" response from Carter and Bazemore. Curry agreed.

"You have to do research on Stanley Kubrick," was he even mentioned within the group. Kubrick, the famed film director of the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has often been cited by conspiracy theorists as producing the video footage of Apollos 11 and 12.

"Obviously, I was joking when I was talking on the podcast," Curry told ESPN in response to the outcry over his comments. "I was silently protesting how stupid it was that people actually took that quote and made it law as, 'Oh my God, he's a fake moon landing truther,' whatever you want to call it, yada, yada, yada. So I was silently protesting that part about it, how the story took a life of its own."

There have long been conspiracy theories that the six-manned moon landings were staged by NASA and there are a high number of believers from around the world. In a 1999 Gallup poll, "6 percent of the American public buys into that conspiracy theory," while British media reported in 2016 that 52 percent of Brits also believed it was a hoax. Another report claimed that 28 percent of Russians believed the conspiracy theory.

Ample evidence exists that man walked on the moon, such as equipment that was left there, as well as first-hand testimony.

"We’ve got rovers, landers, tracks of people walking, all these can be seen using telescopes that are orbiting the moon," USC professor of astronautical engineering Madhu Thangavelu told a Los Angeles a local television news station. "Unless they were done by the aliens I can’t think of any way they would’ve gotten there."

In 2009, the Telegraph debunked 10 conspiracy theorists' claims.