Date of Birth	September 21, 1945 in Reykjavik, Iceland
Childhood / Family	Divorced with two children
Education	Attended primary schools in Nova Scotia and British Columbia; completed high school in Richmond, B.C. Received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 1972 and did postgraduate work in engineering with specialization in applied mathematics and fluid dynamics at the University of Western Ontario.
Occupation	Worked as a Meteorologist with the Cloud Physics Group, He joined the University of Western Ontario to work as a research associate, in 1978, he was a guest research associate at Kyoto University, Japan. Later he returned to the University of Western Ontario as a lecturer in Applied Mathematics
Military Service / Civilian	No military service, Member of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute
Space Training / Specialty	Payload Specialist, Mission Specialist Training
Contribution to Space Travel	First man in space from Iceland
Space Missions	Payload Specialist on STS-85 (August 7-19, 1997)
Outside Activities	Aerobic flight. Scuba diving, Skiing
Interesting Fact(s)	Considers Vancouver, British .Columbia to be his hometown
Status	He currently splits his time between training and technical duties at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Canadian Space Agency in Montreal.
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Links	http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios/htmlbios/tryggvas.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarni_Tryggvason http://www.space-explorers.org/bios/tryggvason.html http://www.sciencetrek.net/tryggvason.htm http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/csa_sectors/human_pre/cao/biotryggvason.asp

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