Lunar ranging reflectors prove squat!!

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Subject: (15) Laser ranging reflectors on the Moon are proof
right?

No, they are not proof that astronauts put them there. NASA
and debunkers have claimed that astronauts placed reflectors
on the surface of the Moon so that astronomers may bounce laser
beams off of them in order to better determine various Lunar
parameters, distance from Earth, period and so on. That fact
is often incorrectly cited as a proof. There may well be
reflectors on the Lunar surface but that doesn't prove anyone
set foot on the Moon. The Russians deposited a reflector during
their Luna (Lunakhod) series of unmanned missions to the Moon
some time in the early nineteen seventies. In fact the Russians
were first with the ability to "soft land" instrument packages
on the Moon in February 1966 with the Luna 9 mission. The Soviet
success was closely followed by the American Surveyor missions
which also "soft landed" instrument packages.
No proof of a manned Moon landing there then.

Yours sincerely
nathan Jones.