Kim Kardashian says the Moon landing was fake: NASA didn’t hesitate to shoot down the influencer’s conspiracy theory

Self-admitted conspiracy theory enthusiast Kim Kardashian asserted on a recent episode of her family’s reality show ‘The Kardashians’ that NASA’s Moon landings never happened. Speaking to her co-star in the upcoming drama ‘All’s Fair’, actress Sarah Paulson, Kardashian said that she’s seen videos of interviews with Buzz Aldrin, who was on the Apollo 11 mission and the second person to walk on the Moon, “and the other guy” (Neil Armstrong) in which they say that it never happened.

For record, Aldrin has never stated in any interview that the Moon landings never happened, in fact just last year in an interview with People Magazine he recalled clearly that historic feat for mankind.

Kardashian’s comments drew a rebuttal from NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy on social media. “Yes, Kim Kardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” he wrote. And he let the reality star know that NASA is planning to return with the Artemis Missions, even inviting the reality star to watch the launch.

Why does Kim Kardashian think the Moon landings were fake?

Kardashian says that she believes that the Moon landings were all just a hoax, besides the previously mentioned, based on her following list: “There is no gravity on the Moon. 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?”

Where to begin? Firstly, the conspiracy theories about the Moon landings being faked have been thoroughly debunked for decades, but here we go again.

• Gravity: The Moon has about a sixth of the gravity of the Earth.
• Blowing flag: The movement was caused by the pole holding the flag.
• No stars: The exposure of the cameras were adjusted for the extremely bright lunar surface which didn’t let enough light in to capture the light from the far fainter stars.
• Footprints differ from the boots in the museum: The astronauts left behind the lunar overshoes with treads they used for walking on the Moon’s surface to save weight.

Furthermore, high-resolution images captured of the lunar surface by a number of lunar orbiters from a variety of nations in recent years clearly show the landing modules and tracks left by the astronauts.

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