My honest opinion on this would probably be NO. If humans had landed long back with those technologies then we would have a colony by now on Moon. World wanted to see who won the space race and US grabbed that opportunity by creating this.
Why? Why would we have a colony by now? Do you think that after going to the moon, each trip afterwards would be free?
I do not think that after going to the moon every subsequent trip will be free because once the US creates this opportunity to go to the moon, then everyone can go. Also on the moon the Blue Armstrongs went before and they built many colonies.