Call it one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind in logic — but Danica Patrick doesn’t care what you think of her moon landing conspiracy theory. She even loves asking people for their perspectives.
Patrick, 43, revealed via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, April 22, that she enjoys asking people if they believe that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin actually landed on the moon in 1969.
“This is my favorite question to ask people,” she wrote above a video outlining why some conspiracy theorists think the landing was staged. “The range of reactions is fantastic.”
Though each piece of evidence in the video has been debunked multiple times over, the moon landing remains a popular subject of controversy. Patrick herself wrote in a May 2024 post via Instagram that she does not believe it actually happened.
“This is def one of the conspiracy’s[sic] I believe,” she wrote. “I don’t care if you think I’m crazy. I already know I am.”
Faking the moon landing would have required more than 400,000 NASA employees to keep the hoax a secret for over half a century. The 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon over the nine manned trips to Earth’s lone natural satellite would have also needed to keep their stories straight.
Still, Patrick is far from the only celebrity who subscribes to the conspiracy theory. Whoopi Goldberg once questioned the moon landing on an episode of The View, while actress Marion Cotillard expressed her skepticism in a 2007 interview with Access Hollywood. Rapper Mos Def admitted on a 2008 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher that he did not believe in the moon landing, either.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry said in 2018 that he thought the landing was a hoax, though he later said he was joking.
As for Patrick, she has lent her support to other popular conspiracy theories in the past. In May 2024, she reposted a video that accused Disney of covering up chemtrails in its old movies.
“Disney paid $60 million for an edit over their old movies to add ‘stripes’ in the sky,” the video’s caption read. “Seems like a crazy amount of money for Disney to want to cover up the water vapor that planes leave behind.”
Patrick weighed in as well, writing, “I won’t stop talking about Chemtrails until I stop seeing them.”
She has also spoken multiple times about how she believes the Egyptian pyramids are a source of energy — a popular conspiracy theory that even engineer Nikola Tesla subscribed to in his lifetime.
“I have always believed the pyramids were an energy source,” she wrote via her Instagram Story in November 2024. “I mean I remember.”
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