Our banquet speaker at CONTACT 2005 will be Andrew Chaikin, perhaps best known as the author of A Man on the Moon: The Triumphant Story of the Apollo Space Program . This acclaimed work was the main basis for Tom Hanks' Emmy-winning HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon . Chaikin served on the Viking missions to Mars, and was a researcher at the Smithsonian's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies before becoming a science journalist in 1980. A former editor of Sky & Telescope magazine, Chaikin has also been a contributing editor of Popular Science and has