A Man on the Moon  A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts is a book by Andrew Chaikin, first published in 1994. It describes the voyages of the Apollo program astronauts in detail, from Apollo 8 to 17. This book formed the basis of the 1998 television miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon". It was released in paperback in 2007 by Penguin Books, .