Kim Kardashian questions Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA responds

Kim Kardashian told a co-star on Thursday that she does not believe the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing occurred, citing videos she has seen online and an interview clip of astronaut Buzz Aldrin that she said she took as evidence. The exchange, shown on the latest episode of The Kardashians, prompted a public response from NASA and revived longstanding questions about how popular misinformation circulates.

On the episode Kardashian, who has been studying law and plans to sit the bar exam, told fellow actress Sarah Paulson that she had been sending Paulson "a million" articles and videos claiming the moon landing was staged. When a producer asked directly whether she believed humans had walked on the moon, Kardashian replied, "I don't think we did. I think it was fake," and cited social media clips and a decades-old Aldrin interview as support.

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy pushed back on social media, writing that the United States has landed astronauts on the moon six times and that NASA's Artemis program is preparing to return crews. The six crewed Apollo landings took place between 1969 and 1972, with the final moonwalk occurring in December 1972. Scientific and material...