Lunar Laser Ranging: a continuing legacy of the Apollo program (1994) [pdf]

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• Taniwha 2071 days ago
  Of course anyone can use these laser reflectors, they're still there, get the "it was all done on a sound stage in New Mexico" crowd to explain that
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  • gus_massa 2070 days ago
    If you try to convince them, you must pick some proof that is actually proof. An automatic lander can do the same job without landing a person in the Moon (unless you think there were some secret cosmonauts visiting the Moon).

    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

    > Lasers on Earth are aimed at retroreflectors planted on the Moon during the Apollo program (11, 14, and 15), the two Lunokhod missions, [...]
• Johnny555 2071 days ago
  Obligatory Big Bang Theory reference:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5CtbbZL-k