Well, this wasn’t on anyone’s 2025 bingo card. NASA‘s acting administrator just had to remind Kim Kardashian that yes, humans really did walk on the moon—and not just once, but six times.
The drama unfolded after Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians aired on Hulu, where the reality star dropped a bombshell during filming for her upcoming legal drama All’s Fair. While chatting with co-star Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian revealed she’s convinced the historic 1969 moon landing never actually happened.
“I don’t think we did. I think it was fake,” Kardashian said in a confessional moment on the show. She told Paulson she’d been reading “a million articles” suggesting the whole thing was staged, even claiming astronaut Buzz Aldrin had admitted as much in interviews.
That’s when NASA stepped in. Acting Administrator Sean Duffy wasted no time setting the record straight on social media. “Yes, @KimKardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Duffy wrote on X (formerly Twitter), tagging the reality star directly. He then acknowledged the Artemis program, which is “going back under the leadership” of President Donald Trump, adding, “We won the last space race and we will win this one too.”
So where did Kim get this idea? She pointed to what she thought was a smoking gun—an interview where someone asked Buzz Aldrin about the scariest moment of the mission. According to Kardashian’s interpretation, Aldrin supposedly responded, “There was no scary moment, cause it didn’t happen.”
Here’s the thing, though. Reuters fact-checked these claims back in 2022, explaining that Aldrin was actually “referring to animations used by broadcasters at the time in their coverage of the moon landing, intercut with real footage.” The clips circulating on TikTok and social media have been taken wildly out of context from various interviews, including one with Conan O’Brien where Aldrin discussed TV recreations—not the actual landing.
Despite the pushback she knew was coming, Kim doubled down on the show. “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what,” she said. “But go to TikTok, see for yourself!”
The moon landing conspiracy theory has been floating around since the 1970s, but it’s been repeatedly debunked through photographic evidence, lunar rock samples, and multiple subsequent missions. NASA clearly isn’t about to let misinformation slide, even when it comes from one of the world’s most famous reality stars.