There is no telescope on Earth that has the resolution to visually track the Apollo missions. It’s just a physical impossibility at the distances involved. Only when NASA launched the LRO, there finally was an imaging system that could take pictures of the moon (from a low lunar orbit) of a resolution sufficient to actually see anything that’s left there from the Apollo missions.
Radars and signals intelligence could and be used to keep track of the missions, though.
Yeah, they were tracking that shit with their own radars and telescopes.
There is no telescope on Earth that has the resolution to visually track the Apollo missions. It’s just a physical impossibility at the distances involved. Only when NASA launched the LRO, there finally was an imaging system that could take pictures of the moon (from a low lunar orbit) of a resolution sufficient to actually see anything that’s left there from the Apollo missions.
Radars and signals intelligence could and be used to keep track of the missions, though.