Bjarni Tryggvason
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Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason was an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a NRC/CSA astronaut. He served as a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle mission STS-85 in 1997, a nearly 12-day mission to study
Tryggvason in 1997
Bjarni Tryggvason and son Michael talking to the crowd after completing five flights on the Silver Dart replica on February 22, 2009
Canadian Space Agency
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The Canadian Space Agency is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act.
Bjarni Tryggvason
…Facility. This facility is used for ISS crew training as well as in support of training the ISS Mission Control team. Tryggvason retired from the Canadian Space Agency in June 2008. He returned to teaching at the University of Western Ontario. He also taught at the International Test Pilots School in London, Ontario…
Canadarm (right) during Space Shuttle mission STS-72
The Mobile Base System just before Canadarm2 installed it on the Mobile Transporter during STS-111
Alouette 1 was the first satellite built by a country other than the United States or Soviet Union.
A Canadian Black Brant XII launching from Wallops Flight Facility