A video recording of the NASA crew’s live interview has circulated online, with some people saying this is the proof needed to reveal that the whole Artemis II mission is being faked.
Moon-landing conspiracy theories are making the rounds again, with online commenters suggesting the space agency and the government are working together to stage another trip beyond Earth.
The claim, as ever, is that there’s no need to travel to space when you could allegedly recreate “weightlessness” on Earth using a controlled environment and visual effects.
Supporters of the theory argue it’s all done for attention, while critics say the accusations ignore how broadcasts and video compression actually work.
Similar suspicions followed the Apollo era too. After Apollo 17’s 1972 Moon landing, skeptics voiced many of the same doubts now being aimed at Artemis II and its high-profile lunar flyby plans.
The latest wave of discussion started after a live CNN interview in which the crew spoke about their mission and what it will involve as they travel past the far side of the Moon.
During the segment, a plush toy named “Rise” drifted around the capsule, used as a visual indicator of microgravity.
But a viral recording of the moment shows what appears to be stray lettering behind the toy in certain frames — specifically “OW” and “TAN” — leading some viewers to suggest a green-screen “glitch” caused by the toy’s green areas.
The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — did not appear to react to the alleged visual oddity during the interview.
On social media, however, people quickly zoomed in and debated what they were seeing.
One person wrote: “duh… even my dog knows it’s fake…”
Another claimed: “Fake as hell they really thought they can continue fooling people with all this current Technology that debunks everything in realtime…”
Others pushed back, arguing the explanation was far more straightforward. One user said: “Green screen? It’s the stuffed animal called RISE that if you see clearly has GREEN for the continents For God’s sake with these people!”
Another said: “I watched this live, there is no way it’s fake. All the clips I see trying to expose is it literally edited.”
🚨 A viral video of an Artemis 2 interview has been doing the rounds on X showing an apparent "blue screen" chromakey text glitch. However it is NOT present in the original.
See original left below and "Viral" video inset right 👇
Source (from 4:20) https://t.co/5UpCy3ygxY pic.twitter.com/VTruSPHVGJ
— Max DeLargo (@banthebbc) April 5, 2026
So what could explain the letters that appear in the circulating clip?
According to the Daily Mail, the segment used chroma key compositing — a method Adobe describes as commonly involving blue or green backgrounds so different elements can be layered into the same image.
That matters because live TV interviews often include on-screen text, such as lower-third banners describing who is speaking.
If those graphics are being overlaid and refreshed separately from the video feed itself, it may create brief moments where parts of the underlying text appear — especially in recordings captured indirectly, such as someone filming a TV screen with a smartphone.
In that scenario, timing differences between the TV’s refresh, the broadcast graphics, and the phone camera’s capture rate can produce flickers and partial artifacts that weren’t obvious to viewers watching normally.
Still, the clip continues to fuel debate online, with people drawing their own conclusions about what the camera caught.