"If we're going to do this," Jamie said, his voice flat as ever, "we have to go big. We need a vacuum, we need high-powered lasers, and we need to stop people from saying the flag was waving." Act I: The Shadow Play
They aimed for the exact spot where the crew left a retroreflector. Seconds later, a tiny spike appeared on the graph. The laser had bounced off a man-made object on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. Conclusion: Myth Busted [S6E10] NASA Moon Landing Hoax
"Look at that!" he shouted, pointing at the skewed shadows. "If the Sun is the only light source, shouldn't they be parallel?" "If we're going to do this," Jamie said,
"The truth is," Jamie concluded, "it would have been harder to fake it than it was to actually go." The laser had bounced off a man-made object
As the episode wrapped, the team looked at the data. They had recreated the "faked" photos, proved the flag’s movement, and literally touched a piece of human history with a laser beam.
The finale took them to the . They weren't just looking through a telescope; they were firing a high-powered laser at the moon.