Everything Kim Kardashian Just Said About the Moon Landing Is Wrong

With all due respect to billionaire businesswoman, soon-to-be qualified attorney and reality TV icon Kim Kardashian — and whatever she saw on TikTok — the 1969 moon landing of the Apollo 11 very much did happen. Sorry!

Conspiracy theories have, according to The New York Times, been spreading since the 1970s about the various moon landings that started when American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped off their lunar module on July 20, 1969.

There is a long, long, long list of fact-checks debunking various false claims about the moon landings, which marked perhaps the biggest milestone to date in human scientific and technological achievement.

Kardashian, 45, appears not to be swayed by any of that, insisting in the latest episode of The Kardashians on Hulu that, actually, the famed first landing wasn't real.

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

She enumerated some of her incorrect reasons: “There's no gravity on the moon — why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon [have] a different [foot]print than the photos. Why are there no stars?”

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.

The list of debunks goes on and on and on; moon landing conspiracies, however, have remained persistently popular among some, even inspiring last year’s Fly Me to the Moon starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum.

Kardashian also said in the new Kardashians episode that she’d seen where Aldrin had been “talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews.”

In fact, Aldrin said the opposite to PEOPLE last year, marking the 55th anniversary of the landing.

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“I have many memories about the mission, getting to and getting off the moon — and a lot of them are about teamwork, mission focus, just doing our jobs right, not letting people down,” Aldrin said then.

“Gratitude, I think, might be my strongest feeling, even now — gratitude for all those who made that incredible event in my life, our lives, the nation’s life happen,” he said. “God looked out for us, for sure.”

Aldrin, now 95, went on to say then that “obviously, I think that getting back to the moon is important. But dreams, exploration and discovery, followed by more dreams, exploration and discovery, are at the heart of being human. For our species, for our nation and for the future of humankind, we need to keep daring, engineering and dreaming about reaching further out into the universe. We need to keep exploring.”