NASA Refutes Kim Kardashian’s Fake Moon Landing Conspiracy: ‘Yes, We’ve Been to the Moon Six Times’

NASA has responded to Kim Kardashian after she alleged that the 1969 moon landing didn’t 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 on X, tagging the reality star.

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He then acknowledged the Artemis program, which is “going back under the leadership” of President Donald Trump. “We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” Duffy concluded.

During Thursday night’s episode of “The Kardashians,” the reality star is shown on the set of her upcoming “All’s Fair” drama series attempting to convince her co-star, Sarah Paulson, that the space journey wasn’t real.

“I’m sending you a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one,” Kardashian says to Paulson while they’re receiving touch-ups.

Kardashian reads from an article that reportedly features a person asking Buzz Aldrin, the NASA astronaut who landed on the moon during the Apollo 11 space mission, what the scariest moment of the expedition was. While reading from the story, she doubts his answer to the question claiming Aldrin has “gotten old and now he likes slurs,” before reiterating that she doesn’t believe it happened.

“I center conspiracies all the time,” she said in a later confessional.

When a producer asks for clarity about her theory, she responds, “I don’t think we did. 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 2022, Reuters published a report addressing claims circling on social media that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked. The organization denounced the speculations, writing, “social media users are sharing a video of astronaut Buzz Aldrin being interviewed by American television host Conan O’Brien and claiming that Aldrin discussing parts of the moon landing broadcasts being animated is proof that it was all faked.” Their fact-checking noted the astronaut was referring to “animations used by broadcasters at the time in their coverage of the moon landing, intercut with real footage. The moon landing did take place, and men did walk on the moon.”