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A Man on the Moon is a 1994 book by Andrew Chaikin that describes the crewed Apollo missions from Apollo 7 through Apollo 17, covering the voyages of the Apollo astronauts between 1968 and 1972. It is based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as engineers, trainers, and others who contributed to the program on Earth.
Chaikin interviewed all twenty-four moon voyagers for the book. The interviews were conducted in depth over approximately a decade of research.
The 1998 television miniseries From the Earth to the Moon was based on A Man on the Moon. The miniseries aired four years after the book's original publication.
The paperback edition of A Man on the Moon was published in 2007 by Penguin Books.
The book covers Apollo missions 7 through 17, spanning the years 1968 to 1972.
Chaikin spent approximately a decade researching and writing the book, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews in that time.