Bjarni Tryggvason Astronaut

Bjarni V. Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a 12-day mission to study changes in the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Bjarni Tryggvason
Birth dateSeptember 21, 1945
Birth place
Iceland , Reykjavík
Nationality
Icelanders

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