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Walter Vincenti is 100 years old and the winner of NASA’s lifetime achievement honor for aeronautical engineering. He’s seen some things. One of the most remarkable things he’s seen was a basketball game that featured a glimpse of Stephen Curry—half a century before Stephen Curry was born.

Vincenti was the student manager of Stanford’s basketball team in 1936 when it traveled across the country by train, stopped to meet James…