Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
He currently lives in Vermont. He is the author of A Manitoba 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 Home Box Office 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration video re-creating the taking of the famous Earthrise photo during the Apollo 8 mission.
His book A Manitoba 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Viking program In the Home Box Office 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.