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Did you actually read what I wrote? Sending a man to the moon was a team's realized goal, and each member of the team holds claim over their contribution to the project. Generally speaking I will go so far as to say that sending a man to the moon has a human accomplishment, but that's the only generalization I'm willing to make. Without historical advancements in language, math, science, engineering, metallurgy, rocket technology... such a thing could not be done. To give credit to a group of people would (IMO) be an injustice unless each individual who helped build the store of human knowledge, (and helped pass that information along...) was included in the group (which is not what I think you're implying here). Could the American scientists, engineers... (et al) have put a man on the moon if they were all born in the 1700's? No. The prerequisite technological advancements and industries had not be made yet, and a large part of what the the team learned in school was not known by any human being at that time... Clearly you can see that the achievement was not entirely theirs. Did the NASA team do something that had not been done before (or since)? Yes... but I'd only give credit to each individual for their (remarkable / mundane) contributions to the project.

I hope that clears things up... I don't know how many other ways I can say the same thing. Teams are just organized groups of individuals... and individuals actually do things. Can you name something that a group has accomplished that was not composed of the results of individual productivity?