I said that earlier in the thread. The reflectors where put there to calculate the distance from the earth to the moon and how much a year it was moving away which is about 2 inches a year.
Quite exciting what they'll do this time around the Aries rockets have a payload of a 100 tons so they could ship larger modules to the moon and have scientists conduct experiments and the possibility of living modules for them to stay for long periods.
Technology is there, nasa just need to create more interest from the public.
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