Bjarni Tryggvason
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| Country: | Canada |
| Organization: | CSA |
| selected on | December 5, 1983 ( 1st CSA group ) June 4, 1998 ( 17th NASA group ) |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | August 7, 1997 |
| Landing: | August 19, 1997 |
| Time in space: | 11d 20h 28min |
| retired on | June 2008 |
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Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945 in Reykjavík , Iceland ) is a former Canadian astronaut .
Tryggvason studied technical physics at the University of British Columbia and received a bachelor's degree in 1972 . He then worked for two years as a meteorologist for the Canadian Weather Service in Toronto and carried out research between 1974 and 1979 at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory of the University of Western Ontario in London . This was followed by two one-year stays abroad as a visiting researcher in Japan and Australia before he returned to the University of Western Ontario and lectured in applied mathematics .
In early 1982, Tryggvason joined the National Research Council, subordinate to the Canadian Department of Industry, and stayed there for two years until his astronaut training began. One of his first tasks was to solve the misfortune of the Ocean Ranger oil rig , which sank in a winter storm off the island of Newfoundland in February 1982 . As a specialist in fluid physics, Tryggvason was a member of the Research Council's aerodynamics laboratory and led the analyzes of the wind loads that acted on the oil platform.
Astronaut activity
Tryggvason was selected as one of six Canadians to be an astronaut in 1983. 1985 and then after the Challenger disaster from 1991, the reserve astronaut of the Canadian shuttle mission Canex-2 for Steven MacLean was STS-71-F / later STS-52 . In 1997 he took part in the STS-85 mission. On June 4, 1998, he began training in the 17th NASA group as a mission specialist, which he successfully completed. He returned to Canada in the Canadian Astronaut Corps, where he was also considered an active astronaut, but he was no longer active in the field.
Subsequent activities
Bjarni Tryggvason announced in May 2008 that he would be leaving the Canadian Space Agency to teach at the University of Western Ontario .
Private
Bjarni Tryggvason is divorced and has two children.
See also
Web links
- Short biography of Bjarni Tryggvason at spacefacts.de
- Biography of Bjarni Tryggvason in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason to retire. CBC News, May 1, 2008, accessed August 21, 2012 .
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| SURNAME | Tryggvason, Bjarni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tryggvason, Bjarni Valdimar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian astronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reykjavík , Iceland |