STS-85 crew:
Seated (L-R): Kent Rominger, Curtis Brown
Standing (L-R): Robert Curbeam, Stephen Robinson, Nancy Jan Davis, Bjarni Tryggvason
Mission patch
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-85) blasted off August 7, 1997 with the first Icelandic-born astronaut, Bjarni Tryggvason, payload specialist. The rest of the crew consisted of Commander Curtis Brown, Pilot Kent Rominger, Nancy Jan Davis, Robert Curbeam, and Stephen Robinson. Tryggvason was an astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency.
This was the fourth cooperative mission between the German Space Agency and NASA. The crew returned to Earth August 19, a day later than scheduled due to fog at the Kennedy Space Center.
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