"...The detection on Earth of reflections from laser ranging retro-reflectors (LRRRs, or mirrors used as targets for Earth-based tracking lasers) on Lunar Laser Ranging experiments left on the Moon is evidence of landings..." --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings"...The first successful tests were carried out in 1962 when a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in observing laser pulses reflected from the Moon's surface using a laser with a millisecond pulse length..." --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experimentSpendy, how do you explain this contradiction? They were bouncing lasers off the Moon almost a decade before the first Moon landing hoax.
Reading comprehension isn't one of your strong points, so let me highlight what you missed in your quote from wikipedia.
"...The first successful tests were carried out in 1962 when a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in observing laser pulses reflected from the Moon's surface using a laser with a millisecond pulse length..."So the early experiments bounced the lasers directly off the Moon itself, not the reflectors the Apollo missions left on the Moon.