Bjarni Tryggvason

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 changes in the Earth's atmosphere. Bjarni is the first, and as of 2024, only Canadian astronaut of Icelandic birth.

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Who was born first?

• Bjarni Tryggvason and Roberta Bondar were born the same year
• Bjarni Tryggvason and Michael J. Smith were born the same year
• Bjarni Tryggvason and Leonid Popov were born the same year
• Bjarni Tryggvason and Gregory Olsen were born the same year
• Bjarni Tryggvason and Millie Hughes-Fulford were born the same year

Timeline

1. Bjarni Tryggvason (this page)September 21, 1945 – April 5, 2022
2. Gregory OlsenApril 20, 1945 – present
3. Leonid PopovAugust 31, 1945 – present
4. Michael J. SmithApril 30, 1945 – January 28, 1986
5. Millie Hughes-FulfordDecember 21, 1945 – February 2, 2021
6. Roberta BondarDecember 4, 1945 – present

Related

• Neil ArmstrongAugust 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
• Yuri GagarinMarch 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968
• Valentina TereshkovaMarch 6, 1937 – present
• Buzz AldrinJanuary 20, 1930 – present
• Michael CollinsOctober 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021
• John GlennJuly 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016
• William ShatnerMarch 22, 1931 – present
• Kalpana ChawlaMarch 17, 1962 – 2003