{"id":367319,"date":"2026-04-07T05:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:09:11","slug":"nasa-video-spurs-hoax-artemis-ii-mission-is-staged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367319\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA video spurs hoax Artemis II mission is staged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conspiracy theorists are going bonkers over a new NASA video they claim \u201cproves\u201d the Artemis II mission to the moon<\/a> is staged in front of a green screen.<\/p>\n

The brave crew gave a live interview over the weekend\u00a0to CNN<\/a>, discussing their journey to the moon while a plush toy named \u201cRise\u201d floated around the capsule as a sign of zero gravity.<\/p>\n

But a clip of the interview filmed by a cellphone from the TV allegedly shows visual distortions and flickers of text, including the letters \u201cTAN\u201d and \u201cOW\u201d across the toy\u2019s body and head.<\/p>\n

Conspiracists quickly seized on the clip as supposed \u201cproof\u201d that the entire mission was staged.<\/p>\n

Conspiracists have pointed to signs from an interview with the Artemis II crew they claim proves the mission was faked.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreen screen studio glitching on the Artemis moon mission \u2026. It\u2019s all fake!?\u201d one\u00a0X user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPure green screen bulls\u2013t. Same exact fabric they use on movie sets. Artemis? Fake as hell. They never went up there. Whole thing\u2019s a staged circus and we\u2019re the idiots paying for it. Truth\u2019s buried under layers of CGI and lies. Wake up, man,\u201d a second\u00a0X user added<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver 50 million dollars a day to give us green screen BS,\u201d wrote a third\u00a0X user<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An apparent green screen glitch during a live interview with CNN. CNN<\/p>\n

However, the more likely explanation appears to be that the clip was recorded from a TV display with chromakey overlay processing active.<\/p>\n

Chromakey, also known as green-screen or blue-screen effect, is commonly used by broadcasters to insert captions, graphics and lower-third text into live footage.<\/p>\n

Live interviews often include graphic overlays such as captions, logos, and name banners, which are digitally layered in real time over the video.<\/p>\n

The Artemis II crew aims to travel further from Earth than any humans have ever gone. Pat Benic\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

The live video and graphics can suffer mismatches, causing fragments of the on-screen text to briefly overlap with bright or moving objects, such as the plush toy in the video, making it seem as if the letters were appearing on it.<\/p>\n

NASA and CNN\u2019s original footage shows the toy floating normally without the strange color distortions or the flickering letters seen in the viral clip.<\/p>\n

During the vessel\u2019s historic launch last week, a podcaster shot down conspiracy theorists <\/a>who claimed the mission was all green screen by touching grass on a livestream.<\/p>\n

Artemis II\u2019s crew, including NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman, as well as Canada\u2019s Jeremy Hansen, have begun their final approach to the surface of the moon.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s flyby saw the craft break the record for the farthest distance ever traveled by humans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The crew is set to travel 252,757 miles from Earth during their fly-by of the moon, over 4,000 miles beyond the record set by the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970.<\/p>\n

Later in the evening, the crew will be cut off from Earth for some 40 minutes<\/a> as Artemis II enters a deep-space dead zone.<\/p>\n

Already, the mission has resulted in stunning new photos of Earth<\/a> \u2014 including an updated version of the iconic \u201cBlue Marble\u201d shot snapped by the Apollo 17 crew more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conspiracy theorists are going bonkers over a new NASA video they claim \u201cproves\u201d the Artemis II mission to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[120514,18856,3146,8036,3323,111,139,69,147,392,123846,258],"class_list":{"0":"post-367319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-artemis-ii","9":"tag-conspiracy-theories","10":"tag-earth","11":"tag-moon","12":"tag-nasa","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-space-program","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}