Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson
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Örlygur Hnefill wearing a replica of the Apollo spacesuit at The Exploration Museum.
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October 23, 1983 Húsavík, Iceland |
| Nationality | Icelandic |
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Museum director Hotel manager |
| Spouse(s) | Jóhanna Ásdís Baldursdóttir |
| Children | Aníta, Ylva |
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Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson (born 23 October 1983) is an Icelandic entrepreneur, hotelier, founder of The Exploration Museum and President of the Norðurþing town council.
From 2007 to 2009, Örlygur served as the parliamentary assistant to Einar Már Sigurðarson, member of Parliament for Northeast Constituency. From 2011 to 2016 he served as chairman of the Húsavík Chamber of Commerce and Tourism.
In May 2014, Örlygur was elected to the town council of Norðurþing municipality in northern Iceland. He served as chair of the Norðurþing Harbor Committee from 2015 to 2016 and as chairman of the regional Recycling and Waste Management Cooperative from 2014 to 2016. He has served as President of the town council since 2017.
In 2015, Örlygur led an expedition with Apollo astronauts Walter Cunningham, Rusty Schweikart and Harrison Schmitt, as well as the family of Neil Armstrong, to to the new lava of Holuhraun, created by fissure eruptions in 2014 and 2015.. He has led similar expeditions with Apollo astronauts Bill Anders and Charlie Duke to the areas near Askja where the astronauts were trained in geology in 1965 and 1967, before the Apollo Lunar missions.
In 2015, he co-designed a monument with his father, commemorating the part of Iceland in the Apollo program. The monument contains the names of 32 Apollo astronauts that were sent to Iceland for training, and has two steel globes on top of two basalt columns, representing the Earth and the Moon. The monument was unveiled on July 15, 2015, by the grandchildren of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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