Gregory Errol Chamitoff was born in Montreal, Canada, but later fought for outer space in a series of chess simul battles against correspondence teams of other earthlings at terrestrial-based NASA facilities.
To test their communications systems of small data packets transmitted at a correspondence rate, the National Aeronautics & Space Agency (NASA) has been known to display chess simuls between teams such as shuttle or orbital station crew versus their counterpart teams at their local terrestrial bases.
Flight Engineer Chamitoff received a B.S., Electrical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, 1984, a M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1985, a Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992 & M.S., Planetary Geology (Space Science), University of Houston–Clear Lake, 2002 - which eventually also earned him the role of a science officer in his NASA ventures.
References: (1) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/s... (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), (2) http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/... (Canadian Space Agency), (3) http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/s... (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), (4) https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/chris-... (starts teaching at the U of Waterloo in 2014), (5) An astronaut's guide to life on Earth - book released in 2013 by Chris Hadfield.
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