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Originally Posted by john1975
overwhelming evidence we've never made it to the moon, and anybody trying to convince us otherwise is probably Gov. / NASA themselves...
The technology available in the 60's would of made it impossible. If it was so easy, why hasn't any country (including our own) been back since? The moon is the most interesting near-earth object...yet we completely ignore it like it's not even there. Lets instead spend $billions$ more trying to get to Mars...where we've only had a 50% success rate so far. (or less)
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If we never went to the moon, how have we been using the retroflectors we put on there? Are you saying Russia verifying their existence means Russia is lying too? The territories were put there during the Apollo mission in '69, you know, USA Americans on the moon
"The first successful tests were carried out in 1962 when a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in observing laser pulses reflected from moon's surface using a laser with a millisecond pulse length. Similar measurements were obtained later the same year by a Soviet team at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory using a Q-switched ruby laser.
Greater accuracy was achieved following the installation of a retroreflector array on July 21, 1969, by the crew of "Apollo 11", and two more retroreflector arrays left by the "Apollo 14" and "Apollo 15" missions have also contributed to the experiment.
Successful lunar laser range measurements to the retroreflectors were first reported by the 3.1 m telescope at Lick Observatory, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories Lunar Ranging Observatory in Arizona, the Pic du Midi Observatory in France, the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, and McDonald Observatory in Texas.