What Kim Kardashian Said About the Moon Landing

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Kim Kardashian has a controversial belief that has people keeping up. In Season 7, Episode 2, of Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” Kim Kardashian reveals she doesn’t believe the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 really happened. While on set filming her new Hulu series “All’s Fair,” Kardashian tries to convince her costar Sarah Paulson of her theory. Kardashian tells Paulson, “I’m sending you like so far, a million articles, interviews with both Buzz Aldrin and the other one,” referring to another astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission. Paulson replies, “Yes, do it,” as Kardashian continues to explain. “This girl says, ‘What was the scariest moment?’ And he (Aldrin) goes, there was no scary moment because it didn’t happen. It could have been scary, but it wasn’t because it didn’t happen,” Kardashian says. Kardashian continues, “So I think it didn’t happen.” A producer from her reality show later asks her, “Wait, for the record. Do you think that we didn’t walk on the moon?” Kardashian admits that she thinks it was fake. The producer follows up with, “And what do you have to say to people who are going to say you’re crazy for saying that?” “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok, see for yourself," Kardashian states. The viral clip lead NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy to take to X with a response. “Yes, Kim Kardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times! And even better: NASA Artemis is going back under the leadership of POTUS. We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” Duffy wrote. Kardashian wrote in a reply to the X post, “Wait…. what’s the tea on 3I Atlas?!?!!!!!!!????? Duffy answers her question, “Great question! NASA’s observations show that this is the third interstellar comet to pass through our solar system. No aliens. No threat to life here on Earth. 3 = the third I = interstellar, meaning from beyond our solar system ATLAS = discovered by our Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) team.” In the end of the post, Duffy says, “We love your excitement about our Artemis mission to the Moon. You’re officially invited to launch at Kennedy Space Center!” The target launch date for Artemis II is April 2026 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and according to NASA, “Four astronauts will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The 10-day flight will help confirm systems and hardware needed for early human lunar exploration missions.” NASA also has announced that an Artemis III mission is planned to launch in 2027, where astronauts will land on the moon for the first time, since the Apollo Program, more than 50 years ago. The United States has had 6 lunar landing missions from 1962-1972. NASA describes the mission on their website, “Over the course of about 30 days, the Artemis III astronauts will travel to lunar orbit, where two crew members will descend to the surface and spend approximately a week near the South Pole of the Moon conducting new science before returning to lunar orbit to join their crew for the journey back to Earth.” When Amazon’s Jeff Bezos launched Blue Origin’s 11th human spaceflight with an all-female crew in April of this year, Kardashian was unable to attend, but her mother Kris Jenner and sister Khloé Kardashian were on site in West Texas. The astronaut crew included Bezos' now wife Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry and Kerianne Flynn. Kardashian was hoping to attend alongside Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian to support their friend Sánchez. Jenner explained her absence to Blue Origin, saying, “Kim keeps writing us, because she was supposed to be here with us and she’s studying for law school, and she had a big test that she had to take. Again, something I’m very proud of. But she keeps calling going, ‘I have such FOMO, tell me every minute of it.’ So, it’s very inspirational and we’re proud of the girls every one of them.” We will have to wait and see if Kim Kardashian attends one or both Artemis launches.