--- title: "NASA Issues Horrified Response to Kim Kardashian" description: "In a recent episode of the reality TV show \"The Kardashians,\" Kim Kardashian said the Moon landings were faked. NASA is not impressed." date: "2025-11-02" modified: "2025-11-02" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/space/nasa-response-kim-kardashian-moon-landing" categories: - "Astronomy" - "Moon" - "NASA" - "Off-World" - "Space" --- # NASA Issues Horrified Response to Kim Kardashian ![In a recent episode of the reality TV show "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian said the Moon landings were faked. NASA is not impressed.]() *Getty / NASA / Futurism* In the most recently aired episode of the reality TV show "The Kardashians," socialite and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian [questioned]() whether the United States ever landed on the Moon. In a clip [making its rounds on social media](), Kardashian admitted in a confessional that "I center conspiracies all the time," adding that she believes the Moon landings were faked, one of the most persistent conspiracy theories that has survived for decades, despite overwhelming evidence debunking it. "I think it was fake," she says in the video. "I’ve seen a few videos on Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews. Maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin." Unsurprisingly, Kardashian's eyebrow-raising comments were quickly rebuked on social media. "Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before... six times!" interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy [tweeted]() in response to the video. "\[NASA Artemis\] is going back under the leadership of \[president Donald Trump\]," he added. "We won the last space race, and we will win this one too," he added, perhaps referring to the threat of [China making it to the Moon first]() in the upcoming years. Aldrin became the second person, after Commander Neil Armstrong, to walk on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Within the next following three years, NASA sent another five crews and a total of [12 astronauts]() to the lunar surface. It's unclear what Kardashian is referring to, since Aldrin has never used his fame to deny that the US landed on the Moon over half a century ago. As [*Reuters* noted in 2022](), an interview of him pointing out that animations used by broadcasters at the time didn't tell the full story were quickly twisted by conspiracy theorists as supposed evidence that the Moon landings didn't happen. Pushing ahead, a baffled-sounding Kardashian seized the opportunity to get more information about our efforts to explore the cosmos. "Wait…. what’s the tea on 3I Atlas?!?!!!!!!!?????" she [tweeted]() in response to Duffy debunking her Moon landing conspiracy theory claims. Kardashian was referring to the third interstellar object to have ever been observed, which has been blazing through the solar system at a breakneck speed, while also making a [close pass of Mars]() this month. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has [repeatedly pointed out its unusual characteristics]() to argue that it could [be a spacecraft sent by intelligent extraterrestrial life](), despite an [overwhelming consensus]() that it's a comet. (Even Loeb [has admitted]() it's unlikely to be alien in nature.) "No aliens," Duffy [responded](). "No threat to life here on Earth." "We love your excitement about our Artemis mission to the Moon," he added. "You’re officially invited to launch at Kennedy Space Center!" NASA is planning to [fly a crew of four astronauts]() around the Moon and back as part of its ten-day Artemis 2 mission early next year, followed by the [first planned lunar landing in 2028](). However, an [ongoing government shutdown]() and [technological setbacks]() could delay the US' historic return, opening the door for China to get there first. **More on Artemis:** [*NASA Not Paying Moon Astronauts as They Prepare to Risk Their Lives*]() ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()