The TLRS-4 Laser Ranging System is part of the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS), which provides satellite laser ranging and lunar laser ranging data.
Carroll Alley (previous principal investigator of Apollo's reflector experiment)
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On the May 24, 2010 episode of The Big Bang Theory, "The Lunar Excitation," the characters bounce a laser off the reflector on the moon.
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The precision of this science is currently being extended still further by the recently established Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation.