Andrew Chaikin

Andrew Chaikin is an American science writer and space historian, author of the definitive book on the Apollo era. As creator-editor of The NASA Archives, 60 Years in Space, he curated the extraordinary photographic and documentary record of the agency, from Mercury to Artemis, while remaining the leading narrative storyteller of human spaceflight.

A former journalist for Science and Earth, Chaikin is best known for A Man on the Moon, the oral-history masterpiece that inspired the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. His writing combines technical authority with the intimacy of the astronauts' own voices, making him a central figure in space literature.