Apollo 11 Experiment on Moon Still Going After 40 Years

This has to be absolutely amazing! A lunar laser ranging reflector which was used to accurately calculate the distance between the earth and moon by measuring the round-trip time of a laser fired from Earth to a reflector on the instrument continues to be used by earth observatories today.

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