NASA thinks Kim Kardashian is barking at the moon.
After the Skims founder, 45, claimed on Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians that the 1969 moon landing didn’t happen, the federal agency gave her an astronomical diss with a brief message on social media.
“Yes, [Kim], we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” transportation secretary Sean Duffy wrote on X. Duffy added that NASA’s Artemis mission plans to return to the moon under Donald Trump’s leadership.
“We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” Duffy concluded.
Kardashian’s theory — which has been repeatedly disproven — is that Apollo 11 astronauts, including the late Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, 95, never really went to the Moon: they blasted off into orbit and waited up there while the world watched scenes that were actually filmed in a studio, before coming back down to be falsely hailed as heroes.
The influencer’s opinion of the historical event was brought up while speaking to co-star, Sarah Paulson, on the set of the legal drama All’s Fair, set to premiere on Hulu next week.
“I’m sending you, so far, a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one,” Kardashian said, appearing to refer to Armstrong while trying to convince Paulson of the theory.
“Yes, do it,” Paulson replied as her co-star began reading out articles with quotes from the two astronauts.
“This girl says, ‘What was the scariest moment?’ And [Aldrin] goes, ‘There was no scary moment ’cause it didn’t happen. It could’ve been scary, but it wasn’t ’cause it didn’t happen.’”
Kardashian alleged that because Aldrin has “gotten old,” his facade has slipped, causing him to reveal the truth without realizing it. “So I think it didn’t happen,” she added.
While Paulson appeared skeptical, she assured Kardashian she would be doing a “massive deep dive” on the theory.
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A producer for the reality show later prompted the socialite to confirm her belief in the conspiracy theory.
“I don’t think we did. I think it was fake,” she said of the moon landing.
“I’ve seen a few videos [of] Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews. Why does Buzz Aldrin say it didn’t happen? There’s no gravity on the moon — why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon [have] a different [foot]print than the photos. Why are there no stars?”
Social media users have often shared videos of astronaut Aldrin being interviewed by Conan O’Brien, claiming that Aldrin discussing parts of the moon landing broadcasts being animated is proof that it was all faked. He was, in fact, referring to animations used by broadcasters at the time in their coverage of the moon landing, intercut with real footage.
The producer then asked Kardashian how she would respond to anyone who doubted her, but she replied that everyone could do their own research on the subject.
“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok. See for yourself,” she said.
New episodes of The Kardashians air every Thursday on Hulu.
