Gregory Chamitoff

Gregory Chamitoff, born in Montreal in 1962, is an aerospace engineer, professor and former NASA astronaut. He joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 1998 after work in mission control and aerospace research. In 2008 he spent roughly six months aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer and science officer, then returned to space on STS-134 in 2011. Across his completed missions he accumulated 198 days, 18 hours and 2 minutes in space. JTA contemporaneously described him as a Jewish astronaut and reported that he brought mezuzot to the station. Canadian-born American engineer and former NASA astronaut who lived aboard the ISS during Expeditions 17 and 18. In Jewish World Records, Gregory Chamitoff is connected to the record “Longest Cumulative Time in Space by a Jewish Man,” based on the stored achievement of 198 days 18 hours 2 minutes.