Goll-lly, bub! We should all bow down to that backhanded, broad brush slap of "logic!" /s
We may all be sure the contemporaneous reports of cost overruns and delays for the NOVA booster project were all a ruse to coincidentally scrap the project because WvB and his Peenemünde #2, Kurt Debus, really just weren't bright or clever enough to think of a "single stage to orbit" solution. Please show the contemporaneous (that is, '63-'65) take-down of WvB's way of thinking in favor of placing a redesign-on-the-fly homeless shelter that would go to the moon with mis-measured mating pieces, inch-sized gaps in the outer hull, held together with tape to patch gouges and tears in its various-sized, wrinkled-or-smooth fabric, aluminum and 6mm foil (for shielding, of course--differing by inches with what the Orion project would decades later determine was necessary!). I can easily believe WvB wouldn't have desired he be associated with it, unlike Stanley Kubrick.
Unlike Magnum44's claim, for flights that skirted the upper edges of Low Earth Orbit, astronauts universally reported moderate to several visual effects (from increasing radiation beyond the Van Allen Belts). Such radiation would have been a continuous bombardment, both in the traverse to and on the moon.
Any manned flight to the moon in the rattle traps from Kubrick's sound stage (see pics here) would have died of radiation poisoning. That's why NASA had to claim all record of the Apollo mission technology was destroyed and "had to painfully built it back again" (e.g., in the Orion project).
Only someone in the pay of NASA could dare utter such a lie as the above with a straight face!
