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To the moon, Kim!
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy clapped back at Kim Kardashian Friday after the reality star insisted the 1969 moon landing was fake.
“Yes, @KimKardashian, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” Duffy wrote on X, referring to NASA’s six successful manned missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972, as part of the Apollo program.
Duffy, who also serves as secretary of the Department of Transportation, noted that the Trump administration plans to send astronauts back to the moon.
“And even better: @NASAArtemis is going back under the leadership of @POTUS,” Duffy wrote.
He added: “We won the last space race and we will win this one too.”
NASA’s Artemis II mission, tentatively slated for April 2026, will carry four astronauts on a 10-day lunar fly-by, marking the first time humans have ventured beyond Earth’s orbit since the Apollo program.
Duffy’s tweet included a clip of Kardashian’s wild claim from Thursday’s episode of her Hulu show, where the 45-year-old reality star discussed the conspiracy theory with actress Sarah Paulson.
“So I think it didn’t happen,” Kardashian admitted to Paulson, after watching interviews of the second man to ever walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, purportedly letting it slip that the historic event was faked.
Kardashian doubled down on her moon landing stance later in the episode.
“I don’t think we did. I think it was fake,” the SKIMS founder told a producer.
Aldrin, 95, infamously punched a documentary filmmaker in the face in 2002, after the man argued the space missions were faked and tried to get the retired astronaut to swear on a bible that they were real.
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