"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That’s not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.

When appointing people who have absolutely no clue, he’s tended to do better than when appointing those who are actively malicious. Rick Perry famously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, despite not being able to remember his name, but was probably one of the least-awful Trump appointees, since he seems to have been unaware of its primary mission of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship until after he was appointed.