Henry Spencer wrote:
In article ,
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

Reading Ray Villard's article "Did NASA fake the Moon landing?" in the
July "Astronomy" I was interested to read that although the experiments
were turned off in the 1970s for budgetary reasons (I understand they
were also simply not returning useful data), the transmitters are still
working and still being used...


I think somebody has goofed. The ALSEP laser retroreflectors are still
in use -- they are non-electronic -- but as far as I know, nobody has
heard from the transmitters since they were turned off along with the
experiments on 30 Sept 1977.

I've heard from the Tidbinbilla guys that they used ALSEP transmitters
for tracking training purposes after that date, until the late 80's, IIRC.

Harald