Random Walk
Gregory Chamitoff (MS ’85) ponders his next move in the galaxy’s first “Earth vs. Space” chess match while aboard the International Space Station. (Earth won.) Chamitoff, who spent 183 days on the station in 2008, also took time out while in orbit to participate, via video downlink, in the 80th-anniversary celebration of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT). Chamitoff returned to campus on October 26, 2009, to give the annual Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering. Afterward, he presented GALCIT with a banner emblazoned with a caricature of GALCIT founding director Theodore von Kármán that Chamitoff had taken with him to the space station.
