NASA responds to Kim Kardashian's moon landing claims

2025-10-31 08:07:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The US space agency, NASA, has denied reality TV star Kim Kardashian's claim that the 1969 space mission to land the first man on the moon was faked.

"Yes, we've been to the Moon before... 6 times!" NASA's acting administrator, Sean Duffy, wrote on social media.

Kardashian made the comments on the latest episode of her television series "Kardashians," telling co-star Sarah Paulson that she thought the moon landing "didn't happen."

Despite being repeatedly debunked, conspiracy theories about whether humans really did reach the Moon have persisted for more than 50 years, especially with the rise of social media.

In the episode, Kardashian shows Paulson an interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who along with Neil Armstrong took the first steps 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, before reading a quote said to have been written by Aldrin in response to a question about the expedition's scariest moment.

"There was no scary moment because it didn't happen. It could have been scary, but it wasn't because it didn't happen," she reads.

It's not clear which article Kardashian was reading from, or whether the quotes were actually from Aldrin.

The reality star further tells a producer: "I spotlight conspiracy theories all the time," adding that she believes the moon landing was faked.

"I think it was fake. I've seen some videos of Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn't happen. He says this all the time now, in interviews. Maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin," she says.

After the broadcast, Duffy tagged Kardashian in a post on X, refuting her comments and promoting NASA's current lunar exploration program, Artemis, which is "returning under the leadership" of Donald Trump.

"We won the last space race and we will win this one too," he added.

In response, Kardashian wrote back asking about the interstellar object called 3I/Atlas, which astronomers said may be the oldest comet ever seen.

“Wait… what tea is in 3I Atlas?!” she replied.

Duffy later invited Kardashian to the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of the Artemis mission to the moon.

For decades, scientists and experts have dismissed conspiracy theories that claim the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax.

"Any argument that NASA faked the moon landings has been discredited," according to the Institute of Physics./ CNA