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Mercury spacecraft was designed and built by McDonnell Aircraft. Neighbors in St. Louis tucked the astronauts on board. North American Aviation designed and built the Apollo command module. A professor of mine in college was their project manager. The NASA personnel were the program managers. They were not the engineers, designers, and constructors.
Just like the Air Force did not engineer, design, and build the F-15. They wrote the specifications and were the program managers.
NASA employed plenty of scientists and engineers for the Apollo program. i.e. It takes an engineer to monitor contractors that involved engineering
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4104.pdf
Government funding (and managing (not to mention the US Navy)) got us to the moon and back…that’s the point. It addresses the false implication that anything funded by the government is a lie.