NASA has firmly dismissed reality star Kim Kardashian’s recent claim that the 1969 Moon landing was faked.
“Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before… six times!” wrote NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy on social media, responding to Kardashian’s comments.
The remarks came during an episode of her long-running TV series The Kardashians, in which Kardashian told co-star Sarah Paulson she doubted humans ever set foot on the Moon. In the episode, Kardashian is seen showing Paulson an interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who, alongside Neil Armstrong, famously walked on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.
“I’m sending you a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one,” Kardashian says in the show, before reading a quote she attributes to 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.” It remains unclear which article she was referencing or if the quote was genuine.
Later in the episode, she tells a producer: “I think it was fake. I’ve seen a few videos on Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews. Maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin.”
In response, Duffy tagged Kardashian on X, promoting NASA’s Artemis program, the agency’s current Moon exploration mission. “We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” he wrote.
Kardashian replied, asking about the interstellar object 3I/Atlas, believed to be the oldest comet ever observed. Duffy later invited her to the Kennedy Space Center to witness an Artemis launch firsthand.
For more than 50 years, scientists have consistently debunked claims that the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax. “Every single argument claiming that NASA faked the Moon landings has been discredited,” said the Institute of Physics.
