When the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, it faced controversy for not featuring the iconic planting of the American flag on the moon during the Lunar sequence. Ryan Gosling defended the omission, saying, "It transcended countries and borders...I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [and] that's how we chose to view it. I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible. I might have cognitive bias, [but] I don't think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero. From my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it was quite the opposite. And we wanted the film to reflect Neil." The biography upon which the film is based recounts the astronauts' struggles with the malfunctioning flagpole, which "nearly turned into a public relations disaster," in some detail.

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