"What financial motives could NASA have, since their budget is still cut every year?"

NASA's budget is 65 million a day.

and they have no space program. there are no more "shuttles".

who the fuck told you their budget was cut year after year?

if you can't understand this basic demonstrable fact on paper...

you don't deserve answers to any other question.

you're too lost in stupidity.

here is one example.

take your phone. put it on the floor. walk around it clockwise.

you've just circumnavigated your phone.

does that mean your floor is a round sphere?

of course not your floor is flat.

so a ship "circumnavigating the north pole" has nothing to do with a sphere.

ponder that for a while. or don't.

truth doesn't need your approval.