Kim Kardashian Insists Moon Landing Was Faked: ‘They’re Gonna Say I’m Crazy No Matter What. But, Like, Go to TikTok.’

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Could we see tin foil hats added to Kim Kardashian’s merchandise line? The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star is insisting the 1969 moon landing was faked — citing information she gleaned from TikTok as her supporting evidence.

Kardashian’s surprisingly stubborn allegiance to conspiracy theories was highlighted in the latest episode of her family’s long-running reality show. While chatting with Sarah Paulson, her co-star in the upcoming Hulu television series All’s Fair, Kardashian declared her belief that the moon landing was faked.

A clip of the conversation was shared on social media, and People magazine covered the episode.

“I’m sending you, like, so far, a million articles, interviews, with both Buzz Aldrin and — the other one,” Kim told Paulson in the clip, apparently referring to Aldrin’s fellow Apollo astronaut, Neil Armstrong.

“Do it,” replied Paulson.

Kardashian continued, “This girl says, ‘What was the scariest moment?’ And [Aldrin] goes, ‘There was no scary moment, ’cause it didn’t happen. It could’ve been scary, but it wasn’t, ’cause it didn’t happen.’ So he’s gotten old, and he, like, slurs on his thinking.”

“So I think it didn’t happen,” said Kardashian.

Paulson replied that she was going to “go a massive deep dive” with the “million articles” Kardashian said she would send her.

“I sent her conspiracies all the time,” said Kardashian in a “confessional” segment on the show.

A producer asked Kardashian to clarify, and she replied, “I don’t think we did. I think it was fake. I’ve seen a few videos of Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews. Maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin.”

According to People, Kardashian then rattled off several conspiracy theories that have already been debunked, about the “flag blowing,” the footprints from the astronauts’ shoes, and the lack of stars in the photos.

In fact, People apparently found Kardashian’s moon landing denialism so outlandish, it published a follow-up article a few hours later titled “Everything Kim Kardashian Just Said About the Moon Landing Is Wrong,” noting there’s “a long, long, long list of fact-checks debunking various false claims about the moon landings:

The flag wasn’t blowing; it was held up by an angled rod — and the shoes that Aldrin and Armstrong wore on the moon were left behind, not kept in a museum back on Earth.

As for why the stars weren’t visible, that’s because of the shutter speed used by the cameras to compensate for the amount of light being reflected from the sun (a problem professional and amateur photographers still face today when shooting up at the cloudless sky).

There’s a large body of physical evidence as well, including moon rocks, subsequent photos of the landing sites and the existence of a retroreflector that can bounce back beams from Earth.

Needless to say, Aldrin has not actually been going around in interviews saying the moon landing didn’t happen, quite the opposite. Now 95, when he was a mere 77, he famously punched a heckler in the face after the man accused him of lying about walking on the moon.

A producer asked Kardashian about the expected response that people will call her crazy, and she was unfazed.

“They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what,” she said. “But like, go to TikTok. See for yourself.”

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy — who also launched his career in the reality television milieu — tweeted at Kardashian to correct her, writing that the U.S. has “been to the Moon before… 6 times!”

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