Earlier this week, Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors surprised NASA and the nation’s educational community with his remarks that the 1969 moon landing was faked.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Curry said he was just joking and that he will accept NASA’s offer to view its moon rocks at the Lunar Sample Laboratory in Houston.<\/p>\n
Now, he also has the opportunity to see the spacecraft that brought those lunar samples to Earth.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Matt Hayes, Museum of Flight president and CEO, sent a personal letter to Curry, inviting the NBA superstar and his family to see the Apollo 11 spacecraft that took the first astronauts to the moon. The historic Command Module will be the centerpiece of Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, an exhibit presented in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution next spring and summer.<\/p>\n
“I hope you can take us up on this offer,” Hayes wrote, “we promise you and your family a VIP experience anytime during the exhibition’s run.”<\/p>\n
Founded in 1965, the independent, nonprofit museum, at 9404 E. Marginal Way S., Seattle, Exit 158 off Interstate 5, is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, serving 600,000 visitors annually. The museum‘s collection includes more than 160 historically significant airplanes and spacecraft, from the first fighter plane (1914) to today‘s 787 Dreamliner. Attractions at the 20-acre, 5-building Seattle campus include the original Boeing Company factory, the NASA Space Shuttle Trainer and the only exhibit of the rocket engines used to launch Apollo astronauts to the moon.<\/p>\n