Andrew Chaikin

Andrew Chaikin (born June 24, 1956^[1]) is an American author, speaker and space journalist. He currently lives in Vermont.

He is the author of A Man on the Moon, a detailed description of the Apollo missions to the moon. This book formed the basis of the From the Earth to the Moon 12-part TV miniseries.

From 1999 to 2001, Chaikin served as executive editor for space and science at Space.com. From 2008 to 2011, Chaikin was employed as a faculty member for Montana State University, Bozeman Montana

His work A Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap states that he grew up in Great Neck, NY, and, while studying geology at Brown University, worked at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Viking project.^[2]

Bibliography

• A Man on the Moon(2007)
• Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight(2008)
• Apollo: An Eyewitness Account - Alan Bean with Andrew Chaikin (1998)
• SPACE: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs(2004)
• A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet(2008)
• Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences (2009)
• Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon (with Alan Bean) (2009)

Essay in

• "Full Moon" - [Michael Light] with Anderw Chaikin (1999)

Cameo appearance

In the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, Chaikin made a brief appearance in pseudo-documentary footage during episode 1 as the commentator of Meet the Press.

References

External links

• Personal Website
• Appearance on the Colbert Report

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