Kim Kardashian Denies the Moon Landing and NASA Corrects Her Publicly

NASA says we've been to the moon six times. Kim Kardashian claims the first time was fake. In a recent episode KardashianThe reality star chatted with the actress. Sarah Paulson O astronaut Buzz Aldrinthe second man to walk on the moon. It was then that Kardashian said that she did not believe in the reality of the 1969 moon landing.

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In the interview, Aldrin was asked about the scariest moment of the Apollo 11 mission. Kardashian quotes him as responding: “There was no scary moment because it didn’t happen. It could have been scary, but not because it didn’t happen.”

It's unclear what kind of interview this was or what exactly Aldrin was referring to, although he appears to be saying that a certain scary moment didn't happen. But Kardashian took this quote to mean that the entire moon landing was a hoax, which Aldrin decided to expose with this single quote.

“That's why I think (the moon landing) didn't happen,” she said.

Acting Administrator of NASA (and former contestant on the reality show The Real World) Sean Duffy disagreed with this sentiment, responding to X: “Yes, Kim Kardashian, we've already been to the moon… 6 times!”

The US actually landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, when Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the lunar surface. Armstrong died in 2012. Aldrin is now 95 years old.

In 2002, Aldrin, then 72, punched a conspiracy theorist who tried to get him to swear that the moon landing was a hoax.

“We won the last space race and we will win this one too!” Duffy told Kardashian on X. He later invited her to an upcoming launch at the Kennedy Space Center, but she didn't immediately agree.

Kardashian did not respond to requests for comment.