NASA boss Sean Duffy responds
In Atlanta: In a testament to Kim Kardashian’s power in the spotlight, the head of NASA felt compelled to set the record straight this week when the reality TV queen said she believed in a well-worn conspiracy theory that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked.
In the new chapter of Hulu’s long-running family saga KardashiansThe star of the show said he thought astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moon landing was fiction.
Kim Kardashian expressed doubts about the moon landing in a recent TV episode.Credit: vision
What convinced him, he said, was a video of the Aldrin interview he saw online. He said he interpreted his comments in that interview to mean that the moon landing never happened.
Since the 1970s, skeptics have floated the idea that the mission, which was watched live by tens of millions of people around the world, was actually staged.
This theory has waxed and waned over the years, but U.S. Secretary of Transportation and acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy wasted no time in debunking the theory after Kardashian told her 4 million viewers she embraced the idea.
“Yes @KimKardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Duffy wrote on social media platform X on Thursday.
US astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969. Fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong and the lunar module are reflected in his viewfinder.Credit: Neil Armstrong via Getty Images
In fact, he said that the United States would return to the moon under the leadership of President Donald Trump. In 2026, the Artemis II mission is planned to send astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon before a planned lunar landing in 2027.
“We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” Duffy wrote.
