The Chang'e 3 mission landed a 1,200 kg payload on the moon on 14 December 2013. The lander included a rover named Yutu, which ceased transmitting in March 2015. To my knowledge, the lander is still transmitting.gclayjr wrote: ↑January 30th, 2018, 2:17 pm Col Flagg,
So let me get this straight. The moon landing (Which I watched in July of 1969) was a fake, but Russians, and Chinese who have never even claimed to have landed on the moon have secretly landed there.You don't need to send men to the moon in order to place laser retro-reflectors on it - unmanned craft are perfectly capable of doing that, just ask China and Russia.
The China National Space Administration has publicly released many high resolution images from Chang'e 3 and Yutu, which you can find online.
Of course the Chinese lander, the seven successful Soviet Luna landers (including the two Lunokhod rovers), and the five US Surveyor landers did not carry Lunar Ranging Retroflectors that were allegedly part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Packages, but don't let that stop anybody.
Col. Flagg, maybe you can explain why pointing a laser at the locations of unmanned landers will not result in reflected laser light, but pointing a laser at the alleged Apollo landing sites will result in returned light.
If some of you want to entertain me, perhaps you will explain why high resolution images from modern lunar orbiters show lunar module descent stages, Lunar Roving Vehicles, ALSEP equipment, tracks in the regolith from people walking, and tracks in the regolith from the LRV wheels. A quick glance at high res images of the Apollo 15, 16, or 17 landing sites will be enough for most people to easily recognize some tracks were made by wheeled vehicles (by the perfectly spaced lines) and others weren't made by wheeled vehicles.