The Verdict [False]

This image is from a 2017 interview filmed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, not aboard the ISS, as confirmed by IMDb and YouTube archives.

What's the claim?

A photo of a person wearing a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) work suit while giving an interview—surrounded by recording equipment and cameras—has gone viral on TikTok. The post claims the image was taken aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

It includes what appears to be a behind-the-scenes shot with an overlaid caption stating that the interview was conducted in space with NASA astronaut Donald R. Pettit. Additional text in the post suggests that this "proves" the ISS is not actually in space and challenges those who believe it orbits Earth.

An archived version of the post is available here.

However, the image in question does not show an interview conducted in space. It was actually filmed at a NASA facility in Houston, Texas.

What did we find?

A reverse image search of the viral photo led us to the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page for '#WhyIMake PSA Featuring Astronaut Don Pettit,' a public service announcement filmed in 2017. The same image appears in the behind-the-scenes photos of the interview on IMDb. According to the listing, the interview was conducted at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, not in space.

We also found the full interview on YouTube (archived here). The video, uploaded by the Infosys Foundation on February 7, 2018, features...

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