WASHINGTON, Nov 1 — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) chief Sean Duffy refuted claims made by United States (US) reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian, who suggested on her show that the 1969 moon landing had been faked, reported German Press Agency (dpa).

“Yes, we’ve been to the Moon before… 6 times!” he wrote on the social media platform X.

He was responding to a clip from the latest episode of her programme, The Kardashians, which was released on Thursday.

“I think it was fake,” Kardashian said of the Apollo 11 mission, crewed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.

“I’ve seen a few videos on Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen,” she continued. “He says it all the time now, in interviews. Maybe we should find Buzz Aldrin.”

Aldrin, who was the second person to walk on the moon after Armstrong, has never denied the moon landing. Conspiracy theories suggesting it was faked have long been debunked.

In his post late Thursday, Duffy noted that the US plans to send humans back to moon as part of its Artemis programme. “We won the last space race and we will win this one too,” he wrote.

The US landed astronauts on the moon six times between 1969 and 1972, with a total of 12 men walking on the lunar surface.

Aldrin, 95, is the only Apollo 11 astronaut still living. — Bernama