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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.