US Space Agency NASA denies conspiracy charges Kim Kardashian that Apollo 11 1969 moon landing didn't happen.
In the latest episode of her family's popular reality show: Kardashian, Kardashian says she believes the crucial lunar mission was a hoax, citing a series of articles that she says explain why some aspects of filming and photography taken on the Moon are unreliable.
Shortly after the episode aired, Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy rebuked Kardashian in a letter. publish on X“Yes, we have already been to the moon… 6 times!”
Kardashian responded to his post by saying, “Wait…what's the tea on 3I Atlas?!?!!!!!!!?????,” the interstellar star said. cometwhich astronomers believe is the third-ever object outside our solar system to pass through our “celestial neighborhood.”
Duffy responded with an invitation to the launch of NASA's Artemis mission to the moon at the Kennedy Space Center.
“We love your excitement about our Artemis mission to the Moon. You are officially invited to the launch at Kennedy Space Center!” he wrote.
Conspiracy theories that the moon landing did not happen have persisted for decades, despite the fact that consistently exposed.
In the episode, Kardashian can be seen with actress Sarah Paulson, with whom she stars in Ryan Murphy's upcoming legal drama. “Everything is fair” — quote from an interview with Buzz Aldrin, who, together with Neil Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon.
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“There wasn't a scary moment because it didn't happen. It could have been scary, but not because it didn't happen,” she raps, “He says it all the time in interviews,” she added, “maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin.”
Kardashian was referring to a comment Aldrin made during a speech at the Oxford University Students' Union in 2015, when he responded to a student's question about the Apollo 11 mission.
“What was the scariest moment of the trip?” – asked the student.
“The worst part? It didn't happen,” Aldrin replied, smiling. “That could have been scary. The switch,” he says, before the moderator asks: “The switch is on [indecipherable]?
“I’m glad someone helped me,” Aldrin said before continuing. “We went back inside after kicking up some dust and collecting some rocks, and of course we had to send them up the stairs because it would have been dangerous to carry a big box of rocks up the stairs.”
He said the crew and crew had thought through the plan in advance, and that Aldrin entered the cabin first so his colleagues could hand him the box of rocks.
“Then we had to get organized, and getting organized means getting rid of unnecessary things so we don't have such a hard time taking off,” he said, describing the process of building and depressurizing the cabin and connecting to the spacecraft's system, and how crews on the ground said they could hear the command through a seismograph that recorded the vibrations of the sounds “bouncing around the Moon.”
He then described how the crew returned to the cabin and noticed something in the rock dust they were collecting.
“There was something there that didn't seem to belong here. It was a circuit breaker – a broken circuit breaker, the end of everything,” he said.
“Engine arm,” Aldrin added on a label on the switch, which was for the system used for the landing engine. “This is the one that will get us back into orbit and take us home.”
He then said he “used a pen to push it through” and then called it a “piece of cake.”
Later, during a scene in her trailer, Kardashian tells an off-camera crew member, “I focus on conspiracies all the time,” and then deepens her disbelief by saying that none of the photographic evidence taken during the landing showed any stars – a popular argument among skeptics, according to Institute of Physics.
The absence of stars can be explained simply, they say at the institute: the photographs were taken during the day.
“This meant the starlight had lost its battle with the moon's very bright surface, too dim to be seen in photographs,” the website said.
Every conspiracy theory claiming the moon landing was fake has been debunked, according to the institute.
The expert organization says that often those who claim the landings were staged say the U.S. government staged Apollo 11 and subsequent missions to deal a decisive blow to the Soviet Union in the space race, increase funding for NASA or divert attention from the Vietnam War.
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