Hmmm. That 'retroreflector array' must have been the first 'Supertool' long before Neil Armstrong

went on to work for Robelle :))



Sadly, I don't remember the first moonwalk. I was about to turn 4 years old and probably wasn't very

interested at the time.



Also, why on earth :) would someone want to tour the moon? There's nothing to see. I'll stay right

here thank you very much...

Bruce



"The most famous thing Neil Armstrong left on the moon 35 years ago is a

footprint, a boot-shaped depression in the gray moondust. Millions of

people have seen pictures of it, and one day, years from now, lunar

tourists will flock to the Sea of Tranquility to see it in person. Peering

over the rails … "hey, mom, is that the first one?"



Will anyone notice, 100 feet away, something else Armstrong left behind?



Ringed by footprints, sitting in the moondust, lies a 2-foot wide panel

studded with 100 mirrors pointing at Earth: the "lunar laser ranging

retroreflector array." Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

put it there on July 21, 1969, about an hour before the end of their final

moonwalk. Thirty-five years later, it's the only Apollo science experiment

still running."



Bruce Conrad

Boston (unfortunately, Home of the 2004 Democratic Nat'l Convention)