Nationality Icelandic | Name Orlygur Orlygsson | |
Occupation Museum directorHotel manager Parent(s) Orlygur Hnefill JonssonValgerður Gunnarsdottir | ||
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Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson (born 23 October 1983) is the manager of Húsavík Cape Hotel, chairman of the Húsavík Chamber of Commerce and founder of The Exploration Museum in Húsavík, North Iceland.
From 2007 to 2009, Örlygur served as the parliamentary assistant to Einar Már Sigurðarson, member of Althing for Northeast Constituency. In 2014, he was elected to the town council of Norðurþing municipality in northern Iceland.
In 2015, he led an expedition with Apollo astronauts Walter Cunningham, Rusty Schweikart and Harrison Schmitt, as well as the family of Neil Armstrong, to the new lava of Holuhraun, created by fissure eruptions in 2014 and 2015. During a press conference at The Exploration Museum in November 2015, Örlygur announced the museum's plan to build a full size replica of the Apollo Lunar Module to unveil in 2019, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight of a Lunar Module on Apollo 9 and the first landing of a Lunar Module on the moon on Apollo 11.
Örlygur is the son of Icelandic politician Valgerður Gunnarsdóttir, and the grandson of author and folklorist Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson.