Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings their orbits. According to the group, in December 1972 a member "picks up Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon". Paul Maley reports several sightings of the Apollo 12 Command Module. Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970: Corralitos Observatory photographed Apollo 14. Paul Wilson and Richard T. Knadle, Jr. received voice transmissions from the Command/Service Module in lunar orbit on the morning of August 1, 1971. In an article for "QST" magazine they provide a detailed description of their work, with photographs. Jewett Observatory at
Apollo 6 spacecraft only entered the atmosphere at a speed of instead of the planned of a lunar return. However, this had been demonstrated on Apollo 4. Ten hours after launch, it landed from the planned touchdown point in the North Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii, and was lifted on board the USS "Okinawa". The S-IVB's orbit decayed three weeks later, and it reentered the atmosphere on April 25, 1968. Although Apollo 6 did not reach full translunar velocities in either direction, it was considered successful enough to fly astronauts on the next Saturn V, which in addition was tasked to send