How did Nasa place mirror reflectors on the moon?

Question

Russians used a probe to plant theirs many suggest the apollo astro-nots placed them on the moon by hand, i find this very unlikely.

Answer 1

The Apollo astronauts put it there when they LANDED ON THE MOON!

Answer 2

Please provide evidence for this probe.

Answer 3

Fine. Believe it. Now shut up and stop making me think there's no hope for the species.

Answer 4

The astronauts placed them during moon walks.  And, that's a fact -- whether you consider it likely or not.

Answer 5

They were placed by the Apollo 11 crew.

And in my UG physics class we got to use them and thus were able to calculate the distance to the lunar surface at that date/time.  

You could do it also using a powerful enough laser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser...

Answer 6

When you call them astro-nots, it seems obvious that you are one of those unfortunate people who believe anything you see on TV, as long as it involves some conspiracy and gives you the opportunity to sound like someone who has all the inside scoop on the big scandals.

You don't.

The astronauts placed them on the moon.  Now if you would like to say why you consider this unlikely, I'll be glad to deal with each of your objections.  Every claim of the moon hoax proponents has been utterly debunked.  They range from incorrect, to stupid, to outright lies.

Answer 7

I refuse to even attempt to communicate with a person that says "astro-nots" instead of "astronauts".

Answer 8

Man never landed on the moon, the mirrors were placed there by probes just like the USSR did.

Answer 9

What is to say NASA's were not placed by unmanned means is that there is NO evidence that this is the case. There is a huge amount of evidence for manned landings and none whatsoever for automated ones. For the Russians it is the other way round: their unmanned rovers with reflectors have a long trail of development evidence. You just find manned landings unlikely but have no evidence whatsoever for any alternative.

Answer 10

As you have said before in your previous arguments against the Apollo moon landings, Russia was ahead of the US technologically when it came to space exploration. The US caught up because its economy could provide more funding and it had a larger population of skilled engineers, but we made it to the moon because we put all of our effort into the manned missions. After several failures the Soviets accepted they would not get a man on the moon before the US so they focused on getting unmanned robotic probes there as a space race consolation prize for themselves. The US had not put any effort into robotics programs so they did not have the technology to develop one themselves...

Sorry if I sound like another of the "NASA fan boys" you are always debating with, but it sounds like you think NASA had no limit on funding or engineering manpower to produce all the parts for an effective trip to the moon through multiple contractors while developing robotic probe technology in secret that they would not use again for decades, had unheard of technology to produce moon rocks that could deceive every geologist on Earth, was able to keep thousands of scientists quiet for decades and convince every other scientist on Earth that they went to the moon by making up information about the moon that has been able to stand up to every test that has been applied to it, was able to bribe the Soviet Union (the ones we were racing in the first place and the enemy that wouldn't mind every American dead) with grain when they happily starved their own economy and people so they could keep up with the US, yet NASA could not put together a movie set without forgetting that there is no wind on the moon for the flag to blow in, that there are stars in space, and that shadows should go in the same direction... I just can't understand your thought processes.

Answer 11

The "mirrors" are retroreflectors. They bounce light back the way it came.  They're not terribly sensitive to direction.

Rainbows work the same way.  Light comes in the raindrops, and comes back more or less the same way.  In the case of raindrops, the light gets refracted out in different directions for different wave lengths.  Since these wavelengths are colors, you get the rain bow colors.  So, you have to look for rain with the Sun at your back.

Answer 12

If you're having trouble believing we went to the moon, you aren't thinking clearly, and haven't researched it beyond making erroneous conclusions and looking at faulty science.

We went to the moon, dude. Read this page and become a believer:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxap...