Bjarni Tryggvason

• STS -85 (1997)

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 in 1972 and received a bachelor. He then worked for two years as a meteorologist for the Canadian weather service in Toronto and conducted research 1974-1979 at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory at the University of Western Ontario in London. It was followed by two one-year periods abroad as a guest researcher in Japan and Australia, before returning to the University of Western Ontario and lectures Applied Mathematics held in the tray.

In early 1982 came Tryggvason to the national Research Council, which reports to the Canadian Ministry of Industry, and remained there for two years until his astronaut training began. One of his first tasks was the analysis of the accident of the oil rig Ocean Ranger, which sank off the island of Newfoundland in a winter storm in February 1982. Tryggvason was a specialist in the field of fluid physics at the Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Research Council and led the analysis of wind loads, which acted on the oil platform.

Astronauts activity

Tryggvason in 1983 selected as one of six Canadians as an astronaut. 1985 and then after the Challenger disaster from 1991 was the reserve of the Canadian Astronaut Shuttle mission Canex -2 for Steven MacLean STS -71 -F / later STS- 52. In 1997 he took part in the mission STS -85. On June 4, 1998, he began training in NASA group 17 mission specialist, which he completed successfully. He returned to Canada in the Canadian Astronaut Corps, was there as an active astronaut, but to use all- he did not come.

Subsequent activities

Bjarni Tryggvason left the Canadian Space Agency June 2008 to teach at the University of Western Ontario.

Private

Bjarni Tryggvason is divorced and has two children.