Those are amazing accomplishments, but I bet a private firm could have had those accomplished for half the price.
Every launch vehicle and item put in space by NASA was built by private contractors, lowest bid. Who did you have in mind to build this stuff at half the price???
Or, are you shooting off your mouth out of ignorance????
A private company would never get the permits. This had to be a military operation, and remains one in spite of the half Witt notion that putting a civilian on the lunar lander changed any of that.