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The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment lets NASA precisely measure the distance between Earth and the moon, and the experiment is still ongoing to track the moon’s orbit and variations in its rotation. The experiment allowed the distance between the Earth and the Moon to be measured to centimeter accuracy.
Full story: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-insti...o-11-experiment-is-still-going-50-years-later
During the attempts to complete the experiment, it became apparent to the U.S. scientists scrutinizing the Sea of Tranquility that someone else on Earth also was firing a laser at the moon and attempting to hit the LURE array, according to Hagerty.
“Those rogue laser shots, it turned out, were from a team of Soviet scientists, who hoped to achieve an end run around the U.S. groups,” he wrote.
Full story: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-insti...o-11-experiment-is-still-going-50-years-later