Andrew Chaikin is an author, speaker and space journalist.
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 (HBO) 12 part TV mini Series. Description Role: Earth and Lunar Orbit Crew: 3; CDR, CM pilot, LM pilot Dimensions Height: 36. ... From the Earth to the Moon was a twelve part HBO television miniseries (1998) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick detailing the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s. ...
From 1999 to 2001, Chaikin served as Executive Editor for Space and Science at Space.com Space. ...
AndrewChaikin, author of "A Man on the Moon: The Triumphant Story of the Apollo Space Program." The book was the basis for Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon," which won an Emmy for best miniseries in 1998.
Chaikin presented one startling photograph from Apollo 15, where the rover was perched on an incline near a large boulder and hill.
One anecdote told by Chaikin was how this story of taking the infamous photo had been told repeatedly as attributed as a prize to Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman, since the official lunar transcripts mislabeled who was taking the picture and who surprisingly was arguing that the Earthrise was a distraction from their scientific agenda.
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