Andrew Chaikin, Date of Birth

Andrew Chaikin

American journalist and writer

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1956

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.