Kim Kardashian calls fake news on the 1969 moon landing. NASA's acting chief begs to differ

Kim, you’re not doing amazing, sweetie.

Kim Kardashian, agelong astatine the halfway of a fewer conspiracy theories herself, has cosigned 1 that’s a instrumentality favourite — and besides thoroughly debunked.

During the astir caller occurrence of Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” the manner and quality mogul professed her content that the 1969 satellite landing, a watershed infinitesimal of large American pride, ne'er truly happened. She besides tried to get her “All’s Fair” co-star Sarah Paulson to portion the Kool-Aid.

“I’m sending you, like, truthful acold a cardinal interviews with some Buzz Aldrin and the different 1 [Neil Armstrong],” Kardashian told Paulson connected the show.

“Yes, bash it,” Paulson told the Skims founder, promising to spell connected her ain “massive heavy dive.”

Kardashian past went connected to mention an interrogation that’s made the rounds connected TikTok wherein she alleged that Buzz Aldrin — who completed the Apollo 11 ngo alongside Armstrong and capsule communicator Michael Collins — gave the hoax away. (The going theory, of course, is that celebrated footage of the ngo was really filmed connected a dependable stage.)

“So I deliberation it didn’t happen,” Kardashian concluded, adding that Aldrin, 95, has “gotten aged and present he, like, slurs.”

Hours aft the occurrence dropped, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy fact-checked the socialite.

“Yes, @KimKardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Duffy wrote Thursday connected X. “And adjacent better: @NASAArtemis is going backmost nether the enactment of @POTUS.”

“We won the past abstraction contention and we volition triumph this 1 too,” Duffy wrote.

As for Aldrin’s takes connected the matter, a 2022 Reuters nonfiction debunked 1 of the astir fashionable clips utilized to implicate the erstwhile astronaut, which was was taken retired of precise captious context.

In a shortened mentation of the clip, Conan O’Brien recounts to Aldrin a puerility representation of his household watching the astronauts locomotion connected the moon.

“No, you didn’t,” Aldrin responds, seemingly contradicting O’Brien’s account. Later successful the interview, however, Aldrin clarified that the satellite landing itself was authentic, but the animated footage broadcast by TV stations astatine the clip was not.

The National Air and Space Museum has explained that determination was a $2.3-million camera connected committee to seizure the real-life images that were sent backmost to Earth.

Nonetheless, Kardashian doubled down connected her sentiment erstwhile a shaper connected “The Kardashians” probed further.

“For the record, you deliberation that we didn’t locomotion connected the moon?” the shaper asked.

“I don’t deliberation we did. I deliberation it was fake,” Kardashian said, adding that she’s seen respective videos of Aldrin allegedly disputing the event.

“Why does Buzz Aldrin accidental it didn’t happen?” she said. “There’s nary gravity connected the moon. Why is the emblem blowing? The shoes that they person successful the depository that they wore connected the satellite is simply a antithetic people successful the photos. Why are determination nary stars?”

For what it’s worth, determination is gravity connected the moon, albeit astir a sixth of what it is connected Earth, springiness oregon take. Hence the footage of astronauts bouncing crossed the lunar aboveground but not flying disconnected into space. As acold arsenic determination being nary breeze, NASA planned for the deficiency of 1 — a rod tin beryllium seen holding up the apical of flag, due to the fact that scientists knew the stars and stripes wouldn’t alert without one. And did we notation that Aldrin did not say it didn’t happen? Yes, we did. We did notation that.

To her credit, Kardashian was self-aware capable to adhd that radical were “gonna accidental I’m brainsick nary substance what.”

She besides encouraged viewers to look for themselves connected Tiktok. Keep successful mind, though, the accounts that regularly beforehand the moon-landing conspiracy mentation are besides fond of different mistaken notions, similar saying the Earth is level and aliens built the pyramids.