NASA used to know something.
Back in the daze of Verner Fun Brown:
“Vonce ze rockets goez up, who cares vere ze come down, zat’s not my department....”
Yeah, about that same time, before the Apollo program goal to walk on the moon was announced, NASA's director and chief scientist (Wernher) was captured on film explaining why current rocket technology would not be able to lift astronauts for a mission to the moon.
Of course, some nameless, unknown bright boy (or girl) not long after made a massive technological discovery that convinced WvB that going to the moon was actually possible (--NOT!), even though Wernher already was intimately involved with the Saturn 5 booster (then still on the drawing boards) that somehow ultimately lifted all the Apollo modules to Low Earth Orbit. (And we have yet to learn that bright boy or girl's name or see their Malibu mansion.)
Barry knew full well NASA's real mission was to launder money to friends of the Deep State, thus saw to cutting in his Muslim friends in on some of the moolah.