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Old 13-November-2004, 03:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Wolverine
I've experienced hoax believers in the past who just claim these reflector arrays could have been placed on the lunar surface robotically or by some other unmanned mission(s). It's unfortunate that some people are utterly immune to evidence, reason, and logic.
Well, in fairness, two corner-cube reflectors were placed by unmanned Russian Lunakhod missions. They tend not to be used for retro-ranging purposes however, because they are not as well aligned as the (manually aligned, of course!) Apollo LRRRs.
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