Well, I'm trying to verify this reflector deal. I know we didn't even have lasers until 1960... I wonder if we had astronomical laser tech by the time Apollo 11 was launched. I've got the timeline for all kinds of other crap. We had CDs in '65 and fiber optics in '70. Yeah, we probably had them. I'm still
about it not actually giving that little detail anywhere, but...
No reason to dis-believe the reflector was placed. A reflector like that couldn't have been placed without local-area manuals (meaning people, because we didn't have robots that smart back then, nor did we have remote-control tech that advanced). Congradulations on the first piece of believable, incontrovertable evidence. But we still can't visibly see the damned thing from earth.
EDIT: They use the He-Ne (helium-neon) lasers. Invented in 1965. Appearently, the old ruby-laser weren't NEARLY good enough for that kind of distance, but these things were far better. Given the scope of calculations necessary to prepare for liftoff, the application of a reflector would have been a last minute inclusion, but still within the area of possibility.
