NBA star Stephen Curry said Wednesday that he will "definitely" accept NASA's invitation to tour the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

"One thousand percent," Curry told ESPN when asked about NASA's offer. "I am definitely going to take [NASA] up on their offer. I am going to educate myself firsthand on everything that NASA has done and shine a light on their tremendous work over the years. And hopefully people understand that education is power, informing yourself is power."

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Curry added that he "was obviously joking" when he questioned whether a man had ever stepped foot on the moon during an appearance on the podcast "Winging It."

"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," Curry said. "So I was silently protesting that part about it, how the story took a life of its own."

Curry caught the internet's attention earlier this week when he seemed to voice doubts that the U.S. had ever successfully put a man on the moon.

“We ever been to the moon?” Curry asked at one point during "Winging It," a podcast hosted by NBA players Vince Carter and Kent Bazemore and Atlanta Hawks digital content coordinator Annie Finberg.

Others agreed that the answer was no, prompting Curry to say, "They’re going to come get us. Sorry, I don’t want to start conspiracies.”

In response, NASA spokesman Allard Beutel told The New York Times that the space agency would love for Curry to tour its lunar lab at the Johnson Space Center.

"Perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets,” he said.

“We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see firsthand 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.”

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the moon in 1969. The Times noted that NASA landed men on the moon six times from 1969 to 1972.