Karen Nyberg spent more than 180 days in space during her two spaceflights, including several months aboard the International Space Station.
But a video circulating on social media claims to show that Nyberg wasn’t in space, but rather in front of a green screen.
“This was supposedly a video from space,” reads a Sept. 6 Instagram post with more than 1,600 likes. “As you can see there is a little bit of green screen theatrics in the back.”
The video shows two frames of the same woman, including one in front of a green screen. The woman hands items to another person dressed entirely in green to make it appear as if the items are floating in zero gravity.
“Astronaut Karen Nyberg @ the International Space Station,” reads the text alongside the video.
The woman in the video, though, is not Nyberg. It's Paige Windle, the partner of David Weiss, aka “Flat Earth Dave,” who hosts the “The Flat Earth Podcast."
Weiss told USA TODAY the video was a "skit" that went viral after someone put it on TikTok and labeled it as Nyberg.
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USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the video for comment. The user offered no evidence to support the claim in the video.
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