Back to matter at hand, NASA is not the claimant that the earth is round. If anything, NASA has used all of the tenets of heliocentric globe earth theory to accomplish the things they have claimed to have accomplished. Ex., without 'sling shot' orbiting calculations and subsequent executions based upon globe earth theory, we wouldn't have any of the NASA stuff that has occurred. Now whether you believe any of the NASA stuff has actually occurred, that's a different story. But the bottomline, NASA is and never has been sole authority, nor voice, that the earth is round.
Ahem...... we got off to space in the late fifties and Gagarin in the Vostok 1 was the first human being to look down towards earth from a modest height orbiting earth.
Alan Shepard reached an altitude of 187 km that same year...althaugh only for 15 minutes.
Both are at an altitude that makes it impossible to see the globe in it’s entirety !
Not by along shot.
So what? An altitude of 187 km is certainly enough to see that the earth cannot be flat!
But why do you only mention crewed missions? There were plenty of uncrewed missions that took photos of the earth.
But within 8,5 years America puts a man on the moon and safely return to earth after the Baron report showed that the whole programm was in abysmal state all together in 1966-1967.
And why do you think that the "Baron report showed that the
whole programm was in abysmal state"?
The Baron report was into the safety practices of North American Aviation and not about NASA or "the whole program".
And so it did not "show that the whole programm was in abysmal state all together in 1966-1967".
Have you read this bit in the preface to the released Baron Report?
When his indictments were finally aired before Teague's subcommittee, during a meeting at the Cape on 21 April, Baron's credibility was impaired by one of his alleged informants, a fellow North American employee named Mervin Holmburg. Holmburg denied knowing anything about the cause of the accident, although Baron had told the committee that Holmburg "knew exactly what caused the fire." Holmburg testified that Baron "gets all his information from anonymous phone calls, people calling him and people dropping him a word here and there. That is what he tells me."
From
Baron Report (1965-1966), AN APOLLO REPORTBYTHOMAS RONALD BARON, September 1965-November 1966Of course the fire in what is now called Apollo 1 was a tremendous set-back because North American Aviation were building crucial components.
So within 2-3 years NASA did everything right.
Have you ever bothered to read any of the tremendous amount of research, testing and development before Apollo? I guess not.
Have you ever bothered to read what the earlier missions did as part of NASA's testing of various systems? I guess not.
Apollo 5 (AS-204) was the first unmanned test flight of LM in Earth orbit.
Apollo 6 (AS-502) which carried a CSM and a LM Test Article as ballast but failed in its objective.
Apollo 7 was an 11-day Earth-orbital flight which tested the CSM systems.
Apollo 8 was the first to orbit the Moon but with a Lunar Module Test Article in place of the LM.
Apollo 9 was the first flight of the command and service module with the lunar module and
Apollo 10 was the was a full "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all components in lunar orbit just short of actually landing.
So, dutchy, NASA did not just send Apollo 11 to the moon and have it all work perfectly "first time".
And if you bothered to read the mission reports after all of these you might have learnt that many things did go wrong and we're overcome because the missions were crewed.
All sling shots and orbital mechanics derived from few explorations worked flawlessly and they gave us a nice blue marble picture.
And why shouldn't they work flawlessly when "sling shots and orbital mechanics" were understood and utilised on numerous uncrewed lunar missions before Apollo?
That is the difference between the achievements of people that understand the theories involved and ignorant people that sit on the sidelines and ridicule.
Of course NASA is on top of the pyramid that sold us the heliocentric lies !
That is another example of your totally ignorance.
The heliocentric system was well accepted and was the "working model" for at least three centuries before NASA turned up.
But you simply cannot escape from your NASAphobia long enough to realise that NASA changed nothing and were not even the first in space or the first to reach the moon.
Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon's surface (1959).
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a controlled soft landing (1966) and
Luna 10 became the first mission to enter lunar orbit (1966).