Sure, but that really hits on the "big thing" about the moon Mercury/Apollo missions. They had a funding model that allowed them to spend incredible amounts of money with absolutely no expectation of return on that investment.

If you put 10000 really smart people to the task of solving big problems while giving them nearly unlimited resources, they could get a lot done.

Of course that's not how entrepreneurial funding actually works. For better or for worse it takes a really unique financier (like the government) to make that happen. The moon landing was the product of a really unique time in our history, I wish we'd stop using it as an example I guess.