Kim Kardashian Invited to NASA Launch After Moon Landing Conspiracy Claims – National

The American Space Agency NASA rejects conspiracy claims Kim Kardashian that the Apollo 11 from 1969 moon landings didn’t happen.

In the most recent episode of her family’s hit reality show, The Kardashians, Kardashian says she believes the crucial moon expedition was a hoax, citing a series of articles that, she claims, explain why some aspects of the images and photos taken on the moon are unreliable.

Shortly after the episode aired, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy reprimanded Kardashian and wrote her in a message on X“Yes, we’ve been to the moon before… 6 times!”

Kardashian responded to his post saying, “Wait…what’s the tea on 3I Atlas?!?!!!!!!!!?”, an interstellar cometwhich, according to astronomers, is the third ever object from outside our solar system to pass through our “celestial neighborhood.”

Duffy responded with an invitation to the launch of NASA’s Artemis mission to the moon at the Kennedy Space Center.

“We love your excitement about our Artemis mission to the moon. You’re officially invited to launch at the Kennedy Space Center!” he wrote.

Conspiracy theories that the moon landings didn’t happen have existed for decades, despite the fact that they did consistently debunked.

The episode features Kardashian with actor Sarah Paulson – with whom she is starring in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming legal drama. “Everything is fair” — a quote from an interview with Buzz Aldrin, who took the first steps on the moon together with Neil Armstrong.

“There wasn’t a scary moment because it didn’t happen. It could have been scary, but it wasn’t because it didn’t happen,” she reads. “He says it all the time in interviews,” she added, “maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin.”

Kardashian was referring to a comment Aldrin made during a 2015 lecture to the Oxford University Students’ Union when responding to a student’s question about the Apollo 11 mission.

“What was the scariest moment of the trip?” the student asked.

“The scariest thing? It didn’t happen,” Aldrin replied, smiling. “It could have been scary. Circuit breaker,” he says, before the moderator asks: “The circuit breaker on the [indecipherable]?”

“I’m glad someone is helping me,” Aldrin said before continuing. “We came back in after kicking up dust and picking up some rocks. Of course we had to send them up the ladder because that would be dangerous if we had to lug a big rock box up the ladder.”

He said the crew and team had thought about that plan in advance, and Aldrin got into the cabin first so his colleagues could hand him the rock box.

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“Then we had to clean up, and cleanup means throwing away stuff you don’t need so we don’t have to be so heavy to take off,” he said, describing the process of pressurizing and depressurizing the cabin and connecting it to the spacecraft system, and how crews on the ground said they could hear the crew through the seismograph that recorded the vibrations of sounds “bouncing around on the moon.”

He then described how the crew settled back into the cabin and noticed something in the dust of the rocks they had collected.

“There was something that didn’t look like it belonged there. It was a circuit breaker – a broken circuit breaker, the end of it,” he said.

“Engine arm,” Aldrin added that the label on the breaker read, which was for the system used for the landing engine. “That’s the one that gets us back into orbit and takes us home.”

He then said he “used a pen to push it in” and then called it a “piece of cake.”

Later, during a scene in her trailer, Kardashian tells a crew member behind the camera, “I center conspiracies all the time,” before weighing in on her disbelief and saying that no stars are visible in the photographic evidence captured during the landing — a popular argument among skeptics, according to the Institute of Physics.

There is a simple explanation for the lack of stars, the institute says: the photos were taken during the day.

“This meant that the starlight lost the battle against the moon’s very bright surface, which is too dim to show up in photos,” the website says.

According to the institute, every conspiracy theory claiming that the moon landings were fake has been refuted.

Often, the expert organization argues, those who claim the landings were staged say the US government recreated Apollo 11 and later missions to deliver a crucial blow to the USSR in the Space Race, boost NASA funding or divert attention from the Vietnam War.

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