"Green screen??? this is from Artemis live on YouTube!" reads overlaid text on a Facebook video shared on April 6, 2026.
It features a smartphone recording of a television broadcast of an interview with the Artemis II crew as they floated in microgravity.
A woman can be heard asking off-camera, "what's up with the lettering behind this ball?" as the camera zooms in on captions that appear superimposed on parts of the mission's official Moon mascot.
The claim surfaced as four astronauts captivated the world with live images from a years-in-the-making flyby of the Earth's natural satellite aboard the Orion space capsule (archived link).
The Artemis II crew -- NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen -- made history as the first humans to fly around the Moon for the first time in half-a-century, venturing deeper into space than ever before.
They are bringing back to Earth rich celestial observations of little-known lunar craters, a solar eclipse and meteor strikes hitting the Moon that scientists hope will open doors.
The video of the glitch racked up over 1.5 million views as it spread in similar social media posts, adding to a persistent catalogue of claims surrounding one of the world's most enduring conspiracy theories -- that NASA's 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing was staged in a Hollywood studio (archived link).
"Green behind a green screen," one user's comment read.
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