NASA Responds to Kim Kardashian's Moon Landing Doubts

US space agency NASA has rejected reality star Kim Kardashian's claim that the 1969 space mission to land the first man on the Moon was faked.

Yes, we've been to the Moon before... 6 times! NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy wrote on social media.

Kardashian made the comments on the latest episode of her long-running TV series The Kardashians, telling co-star Sarah Paulson she thought the Moon landing didn't happen.

Despite being consistently debunked, conspiracy theories regarding the Moon landings have persisted for more than 50 years, particularly with the rise of social media.

In the episode, Kardashian can be seen showing Paulson an interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who along with Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission.

I'm sending you a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one, Kardashian says, before reading a quote allegedly from Aldrin concerning the scariest moment of the expedition.

There was no scary moment because it didn't happen. It could've been scary, but it wasn't because it didn't happen, she reads.

It remains unclear which article Kardashian was referencing, or if the quotes were genuine. The reality star later stated in the episode, I center conspiracies all the time, maintaining her belief that the Moon landing was fictitious.

Following the broadcast, Duffy tagged Kardashian in a post on X, dispelling her claims while promoting NASA's current lunar exploration program, Artemis. We won the last space race and we will win this one too, he added.

In response, Kardashian inquired about the interstellar object named 3I/Atlas, which astronomers believe could be the oldest comet ever observed.

Duffy subsequently invited Kardashian to the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of the Artemis mission to the Moon.

For decades, scientists have rebutted conspiracy theories asserting that the Apollo 11 mission was a hoax. Every single argument claiming that NASA faked the Moon landings has been discredited, according to the Institute of Physics.