A May 8 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a photo of NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility.
"I wonder why does NASA, a space agency, have one of the world's largest film set studios among its facilities," reads text over the image. "Maybe cause, as their name indicates, Not A Space Agency, they are just a film studio, and all they do are movies?"
The post includes the hashtags "#Nasalies," "#Flatearth," and "#Globedeception."
It was shared over 200 times in a day.
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The facility shown here is not a NASA film studio; it was created to assemble rockets and other space equipment. NASA rented part of the facility to a film production studio after the space shuttle program ended in 2011, but that agreement ended in 2016. The space is now used by other aerospace firms.
The image in the post shows NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
It's "America's rocket facility" and the "nation’s premier site for manufacturing and assembly of large-scale space structures and systems," according to NASA's website.
The government-owned facility, situated on more than 800 acres of land, is rented out to a variety of tenants, Shannon Segovia, a NASA communications specialist, said in an email to USA TODAY.
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