NASA has responded to Kim Kardashian after she claimed that the 1969 moon landing did not happen during Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians.”
NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy took to X to refute Kardashian’s claims that the landmark event was staged.
“Yes, we’ve been to the moon before…6 times!” Duffy wrote, tagging the reality star in X.
He later acknowledged that the Artemis program is “coming back under the direction” of President Donald Trump. “We won the last space race, so we will win this time too,” Duffy concluded.
On Thursday night’s episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the reality star is seen on the set of her upcoming drama series, All’s Fair, trying to convince co-star Sarah Paulson that space travel isn’t real.
“I’m going to send you a million articles about Buzz Aldrin and another person,” Kardashian tells Paulson as she receives revisions.
Kardashian read an article featuring someone who asked NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who landed on the moon during the Apollo 11 space flight, what was the scariest moment of the expedition. While reading the story, she wondered about Aldrin’s answer to the question, “Now that I’m older, I’ve grown fond of name-calling,” and then repeats that she doesn’t believe that ever happened.
“I’m always centered around intrigue,” she later said in a confessional.
When producers asked her to clarify her theory, she replied: “I don’t think we did. I think it was fake. I’ve seen some videos of Buzz Aldrin talking about why it didn’t happen. He still says that all the time in interviews. Maybe we need to find Buzz Aldrin.”
In 2022, Reuters published a report addressing claims circulating on social media that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked. The group condemned the speculation, writing: “Social media users are sharing a video of astronaut Buzz Aldrin being interviewed by American television host Conan O’Brien, claiming that Aldrin discussing the animated portion of the moon landing broadcast is evidence that the entire thing was fabricated.” In their fact-checking, the astronauts pointed out that the astronauts were “referring to the animation that broadcasters at the time used in their coverage of the moon landing, interweaving it with real footage. The moon landing did happen, and humans walked on the moon.”
