Biography:Andrew Chaikin

Short description: American journalist

Andrew Chaikin
Born	Andrew L. Chaikin (1956-06-24) June 24, 1956
Nationality	American
Citizenship	US
Education	Brown University
Occupation	Author, journalist
Website	www.andrewchaikin.com

Andrew L. Chaikin (born June 24, 1956) is an American author, speaker and science journalist. He 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 for From the Earth to the Moon, a 12-part HBO miniseries.

From 1999 to 2001, Chaikin served as executive editor for space and science at Space.com. From 2008 to 2011, he was a faculty member for Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. In 2013, he wrote and performed the narration on a NASA video re-creating the taking of the famous Earthrise photo during the Apollo 8 mission.

His book A Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap states that he grew up in Great Neck, New York, and, while studying geology at Brown University, worked at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Viking program.

Bibliography

• Chaikin, Andrew L.; Maxwell, Ted A.; El-Baz, Farouk (January 1981). "Temporal changes in the Cerberus region of Mars: Mariner 9 and Viking comparisons". Icarus 45 (1): 167–178. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(81)90012-9. ISSN 0019-1035. OCLC 4634534615. Bibcode: 1981Icar...45..167C. 
• Beatty, J. Kelly; O'Leary, Brian; Chaikin, Andrew, eds (1981). The New Solar System. Introduction by Carl Sagan. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23881-6. OCLC 7461972. https://archive.org/details/newsolarsystem00syst. 
• Chaikin, Andrew (1992). When Dinosaurs Walked. Curious Creatures. Illustrated by Patricia Wynne. Chicago: World Book. ISBN 978-0-716-61620-7. OCLC 27022944. https://archive.org/details/whendinosaurswal0000chai. 
•    (1994). A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-81446-6. OCLC 29548704. 
•    (1997). Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight. Foreword by Donald D. Engen (1st ed.). Boston, MA: National Air and Space Museum in association with Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Co.. ISBN 978-0-821-22082-5. OCLC 35174864. 
•   ; Bean, Alan (1998). Apollo: An Eyewitness Account. Introduction by John Glenn. Shelton, CT: Greenwich Workshop Press. ISBN 978-0-867-13050-8. OCLC 39292766. https://archive.org/details/apolloeyewitness00bean. 
•    (1999). A Man on the Moon: One Giant Leap. 1. Editors of Time–Life Books. Alexandria, VA: Time–Life Books. ISBN 978-0-783-55675-8. OCLC 48565812. 
• Light, Michael (1999). Full Moon. Essay by Andrew Chaikin (1st American ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40634-8. OCLC 41378164. https://archive.org/details/fullmoon00ligh. 
• Chaikin, Andrew (2001). Josh Simpson: Glass Artist. Madison, WI: Guild Publishing. ISBN 978-1-893-16409-3. OCLC 46851421. 
•    (2004). Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs. Foreword by James A. Lovell (Reprint ed.). Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books. ISBN 978-1-552-97987-7. OCLC 54905689. 
•    (2007). A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. Foreword by Tom Hanks and a new afterword by the author (Reissue ed.). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-311235-8. OCLC 166227448. 
•    (2008). A Passion for Mars: Intrepid Explorers of the Red Planet. Foreword by James Cameron. New York: Abrams. ISBN 978-0-810-97274-2. OCLC 182779576. https://archive.org/details/passionformarsin0000chai. 
•   ; Kohl, Victoria (2009). Mission Control, This is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon. Paintings by Alan Bean. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-01156-8. OCLC 262428553. https://archive.org/details/missioncontrolth00chai. 
•   ; Kohl, Victoria (2009). Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences. New York: Viking Studio. ISBN 978-0-670-02078-2. OCLC 318672096. 

Cameo appearance

In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Chaikin made a brief appearance in pseudo-documentary footage in the first episode as the host of Meet the Press.

External links

• Andrew Chaikin on IMDb
• Appearance on the Colbert Report, April 4, 2011