Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy pushed back against celebrity personality Kim Kardashian’s claim that the 1969 moon landing “didn’t happen.”
“Yes, @KimKardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Duffy wrote on the social media platform X, tagging Kardashian’s X account. He posted his message alongside a clip from the reality TV show “The Kardashians” that showed Kardashian discussing the moon landing.
Duffy added that NASA’s Artemis campaign would take Americans back to the moon under President Trump’s administration.
“We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” he wrote, adding American flag and space ship emojis.
The clip posted by Duffy comes from the Wednesday episode of the Kardashian family’s weekly TV show — a follow-up to their long-running series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” which ended in 2021. In the clip, Kardashian repeats the conspiracy theory that the moon landing never happened while speaking with actress Sarah Paulson.
“I think it didn’t happen,” Kardashian told Paulson, referencing an apparent interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin and “the other one” — likely referring to astronaut Neil Armstrong — where the first two men who walked on the moon said there “was no scary moment” during their trip to outer space. Kardashian pointed to the interview as evidence that their moon landing was fake.
“I’m going to go on a massive deep dive,” Paulson promised her.
Kardashian elaborated on why she believed the moon landing was “fake” later in the episode.
“I’ve seen a few videos on Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen,” she said. “He says it all the time now in interviews. Maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin.”
Claims that Aldrin called the moon landing fake have been debunked in the past.
“There’s no gravity on the Moon,” she added. “Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the Moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”
Kardashian acknowledged that some people would probably think she was “crazy no matter what,” but she encouraged them to find the truth for themselves: “Like, go to TikTok, see for yourself.”
Kardashian responded to Duffy not long after he posted, asking about 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet discovered by a NASA alert system currently passing by the sun: “Wait…. what’s the tea on 3I Atlas?!?!!!!!!!?????” she wrote.
In response, Duffy explained the comet to her and then invited her to the launch of NASA’s Artemis program in 2026. “We love your excitement about our Artemis mission to the Moon,” he wrote on X. “You’re officially invited to launch at Kennedy Space Center!”
