interesting debate. with regard to actually searching the lunar surface for man-made artifacts from Apollo, the Paranal observatory in Chile claims it could see a man standing on the moon. whether or not they have looked I don’t know. But the Clementine probe took an enormous amount of photos from lunar orbit (I don’t know what percentage of the lunar surface they covered) at a resolution of 7-20 meters. pro-Apollo people have scoured these photos and have not found any clear shots of any Apollo remnants.
they do claim to have found the landing site of I think it was Apollo 15. but they claim to have a photo of the landing crater left by the LEM. as I am sure all of you are aware, no LEM left any landing craters which was proven by NASA’s own photos.
What is interesting and should get more interesting is that for one, we are NOW 10-15 years away from a lunar landing. why so long if we have been there before. second is if NASA or the Chinese or the Indians or the Russians all fail to get to the moon by 2020 or so, given the technological leaps we have made since the 60s, that would put a real dent in the pro-Apollo people. The pressure is on for NASA. we wil see what we will see.
what i am glad to see is that young people still hold this debate. it is important because powers that be often use the passiage of time to allow things/problems/conspiracies to die and then a new script can be written. by keeping this debate alive all of you are performing a great service.
it is the 40th for Apollo 11 this July. we will see what armstrong has to say. he is a great man but i personally think he got caught up in a great debacle.