Our very familiar Moon, above, photographed for the first time in high-quality, by John William Draper, in 1840. NASA took this photo of the Moon’s surface 169 years later (on July 8, 2009). Related: Spectators of the 1969 Apollo 11 launch: var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, [...]