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Hal Walker: The Man Who Shot The Moon
View Date:2024-12-23 22:17:19
In addition to flying, landing, and returning from the moon in 1969 — NASA's Apollo 11 crew helped with a series of scientific experiments. One of them was to leave a special instrument with lots of little reflectors on the surface of the moon. The goal of that experiment was to beam a laser at the moon. Today on the show, Scientist-In-Residence Regina G. Barber talks to host Aaron Scott about the lunar laser ranging experiment — and how shooting that laser helped us better understand one of Einstein's theories.
Follow Aaron on Twitter @AaronScottNPR and Regina @ScienceRegina. Reach the show by beaming an email to [email protected].
This episode was produced by Thomas Lu, edited by Rebecca Ramirez, and fact-checked by Kathrine Sypher. The audio engineer for this episode was Josh Newell.
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