If I may quote a great satirist “Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department” says Wernher Von Braun.Exhibit A:
The man he is with is Wernher von Braun during the 1950s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Did Walt conscript Old Wernher to build him that moonbase he wanted?