Jonathan Silverlight replied:
In message , Rich
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Alan Erskine replied:

"Uncle Al" wrote in message
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Hey stooopid, who put the corner cube arrays at every Apollo site for
25+ years of worldwide Nordtvedt effect testing?

The Lunakhod vehicle had one of these and it was unmanned.


How do you know they did?


Because the French researchers who installed it got reflections from it.

You don't believe NASA when they say this, why do you believe the Russians?

Idiot.

Have you yourself bounced light off the reflector? Or are you just taking
someone's word that they have?

OK, it's quite possible that all the Russian landers were faked as well,
but that doesn't explain how Jodrell Bank got a facsimile transmission
from the Moon in the 1960s.

http://www.users.wineasy.se/svengrah...l/jodrole1.htm

Later, in the early 60's, there was not only the need to support
US space probes, but also to help monitor the USSR space probes
from an intelligence-gathering point of view. In the mid-60's the
United States set up a "Deep-Space Collection" programme with
stations at several points around the globe, including Jodrell
Bank. Whether or not this brought a large financial advantage to
Jodrell Bank is not known, but it probably did not work to its
disadvantage.

In a sense, the USSR also used the capabilities of Jodrell Bank.
In many circles the first Soviet lunar probe, Luna 1, launched on
2 January 1959, was simply not believed to have existed (See "Why
the West did not believe in Luna 1" at this Web site and (8). This
must have annoyed the Soviet authorities enormously, despite the
fact that the transmission frequencies were announced directly
after launch. For their second successful launch they decided to
try to engage Jodrell Bank as a source of independent verification
of any claim of success. Therefore the USSR sent detailed
instructions to Jodrell Bank how to find their second lunar probe,
Luna 2, that was launched on 12 September 1959 and hit the moon the
next day. Jodrell Bank provided scientific proof that Luna 2
actually reached the moon, and the USSR continued to provide
pointing and frequency data to Jodrell Bank for a number of years.


I don't see why you believe the US about Luna 1, but disbelieve the
US about Apollo. Can you explain this to me?

And this says nothing about the corner reflectors.

Rich