If we never went to the Moon then how do you hoaxtards explain this?

who cleaned the dust off the mirrors? you know, when the lander blasted off it must have kicked up some dust to cover the mirrors

No, we've known the rough distance to the moon since Aristarchus correctly calculated it in 270 BC.


The Birth of Laser Ranging

The concept of receiving laser light echoes from the lunar surface proceeded more or less in parallel with the artificial satellite experiments. However, the spreading of a beam of outgoing laser light as it interacted with, and was reflected by, the moon's rough topography made ultra-precise distance determinations, as was done with artificial satellites, an impossibility.

A number of such lunar experiments had been performed in the early 1960's, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in the former Soviet Union, but with little success. A later, more refined concept recommended the deployment of a corner retroreflector package on the lunar surface as a part of one of the unmanned, soft-landing Surveyor missions. This was never brought to fruition, however. It was only in the late 1960's, with the birth of the NASA Apollo project for landing an astronaut safely on the moon, that the concept of laser ranging to a lunar surface corner retroreflector package became a reality.

[link to www.csr.utexas.edu]

FFS, we don't need the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment to
prove it. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter got a ton of high-def
images of the landing sites.

[link to www.nasa.gov (secure)]

cool!

how far away does it indicate for the Moon?

The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory glass elevator scene is more realistic than the Apollo lift off from the moon. You're a clown.

Great link.

Myth Busters also tried to use the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment to convince these dimwitted hoaxtards.



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Aristarchus 270 BC, used the most powerful tool of all, his brain and derived the Moon's distance by using the duration of a lunar eclipse.

when were lasers invented ?

We went to the moon, just not the way we were told we went.

We went to the moon, six times. What's far more
interesting is why it stopped. Also no missions
to the dark side. Why not?

Comms couldn't have been the issue, because a relay satellite could have been pre-launched and given
non-stop coverage back to earth.

Recon also couldn't have been the issue. A lunar
orbiter could have gotten all the detailed photos
needed beforehand.

So why no dark side missions?

There were sharply diminishing returns to the information we were getting since the Moon is dead rock and dust. The public was getting bored of all the missions and there were growing complaints about the expense. Liberals of the 1970s wanted the money spent on the alleviation of poverty and other social justice issues.

I doubt that there's a hostile alien base on the dark side of the Moon but I won't completely dismiss the idea.

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So, I guess NASA just guessed about how far the liars had to fly to get there before some fucking mirror was placed there..
*you're going there, you know about that far. We don't really know so, take enough tang with you.. drink pee if you run out of water..*
I guess that they guessed pretty damn good.. lol

No sir, the only possibly way for a mirror to be put onto the Moon is if it was hand delivered by Neil and Buzz. There are no other options.

The distance to the Moon has been known for over 2000 years. By 1968 they knew it very accurately.

OP, your article is hearsay and not proof. prove it is real if you can. it's fake

Dude, there are countless papers and articles referencing the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment.

We currently have the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter orbiting the moon taking pictures of the landing sites.
[link to en.m.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Wouldn't the descent thrusters have created a large hole, looks undisturbed.

They're not aimed at the lunar soil.
Look again at the video and read.

I would just like to know who stayed behind to the run camera that fast to follow the take off...

Yeah, not photochopped at all....

look at the relative size of the LRV tyre tracks compared to the LM for ffs. they should be barely visible if at all.
Amazing the tyre tracks can be resolved clearly but the LRV is just an awkward pixel...

Well for the ranging experiment, only 1% of the actual photons fired at the moon are returned, this in itself is pretty flimsy.

Furthermore one could argue that they shot the moon with photon's in different places until they found a place that returned the 1% back, then they told everyone to point the lasers at that place ( or places ) and that's where the reflectors are.

But I guess an internet article is enough to convince most people not to think for a minute, and use their brains.

You're right, and the picture of the crater almost looks High Def.. Not of the landing site though or the rover..

Finally, someone I can agree with. Knowing the truth of reality is really, really annoying.

It only seems annoying because you haven't found the truth yet.

Why don't you tell us how we went to the Moon then.

On Columbus's first voyage he delivered mirrors to the Americas, and brought back rocks to Spain. Forty-eight years after his first voyage no one had returned to the Americas. After returning to Europe, Columbus seldom spoke about the voyage. The ship logs have been lost to history.

Is that ll you've got moran?

OP obviously does not differentiate between landing a MAN and landing a PROBE on the moon. Most moonhoaxers have a problem with the former, which is not unreasonable. There are issues there which put the manned landings into question.
I believe we did put a man on the moon, but most videos and photos were done in some hangar, Kubrick style. Most likely the video/photo material done on the moon was too crappy for anyone to believe they actually got there. So they arranged some photo ops to make the thing believable.