> Or met someone who worked on or developed those systems?
>
> I managed to convert a skeptic a year or so back during an
> online discussion where it turned out that a gentleman
> who had developed parts of the system while he was at
> Motorola was present and filled in some details in
> answer to the skeptic's question.

I find the corner reflectors sitting comfortably on the Moon, and stillable
to return laser signals to earth from a suitably equipped installation, to
be one of the most convincing arguments. It takes special equipment to do
this BUT the special equipment can be obtained by anyone with suitable money
and desire. Unless anyone who supplies such equipment or operates a large
telescope is still in league with the conspirators the argument seems fairly
well destroyed by this one example.

Everything you are ever likely to want to know about the actual Apollo
missions

        http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html


> There is also this aspect -perhaps someone has input
> on this as well- would not the Soviets at that time
> have not pronounced this to be a fraud should it have
> been a fraud?
>
> I mean, they could easily have received the telemetry
> and voice comms as easily as NASA (physics knows no
> political bounds therefore the radio signals would have
> been as available to them as *anyone* else given the
> proper receiving appraratus!).

Indeed. As a counter example, the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope gave the
world the first pictures from the 1st successful camera equipped Russian
Moon Lander. The signals were sent "in clear" (those were the days) and by
simply looking at the received signal they were able to deduce the line
syncs and rebuild the pictures. They were showing them to the world before
the Russians had announced the landing was a success.



        Russell McMahon

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