NASA has fired back at reality TV star Kim Kardashian after she repeated a long-debunked conspiracy theory suggesting that the 1969 Moon landing was faked.
“Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before… six times!” NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy wrote Thursday on social media platform X, responding directly to Kardashian’s comments.
The Apollo 11 mission in 1969 saw astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take humanity’s first steps on the Moon, an event verified by decades of scientific evidence and global observation.
Despite this, conspiracy theories denying the achievement have persisted for more than 50 years, resurfacing this week after Kardashian’s remarks on the latest episode of her hit series The Kardashians.
“I’m sending you a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one,” Kardashian told co-star Sarah Paulson, before reading what she claimed was a quote from Aldrin.
“There was no scary moment because it didn’t happen. It could’ve been scary, but it wasn’t because it didn’t happen,” she said, quoting what she described as Aldrin’s words.
It remains unclear which interview or article Kardashian was referencing. Buzz Aldrin, now 95, has never publicly denied the Moon landing and has long been an outspoken critic of conspiracy theorists. In fact, he made headlines in 2022 after allegedly punching a man who harassed him about claims that the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax.
In the episode, Kardashian doubled down on her comments, telling producers that she believed “the space mission was fake” and citing “a few videos of Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen.”
“He says it all the time now in interviews,” she insisted.
NASA’s Duffy countered the claim by tagging Kardashian in his post and highlighting the agency’s ongoing Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon later this decade.
“We won the last space race, and we’ll win this one too,” Duffy wrote, inviting Kardashian to attend the Artemis launch at the Kennedy Space Center.
