Bonnie J. Dunbar's Birth Card: The 7 of Spades

In the record

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar (born March 3, 1949) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for March 3 is the 7 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 7 of Spades coordinate

Bonnie J. Dunbar's birthday maps to the 7 of Spades (The Questioning Mind). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a mission and not a verdict on Bonnie J. Dunbar. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You study the hard pattern until you can name it, then you do the next honest thing.

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Bonnie J. Dunbar in the public record

She flew on five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, including two dockings with the Mir space station. A graduate of the University of Washington, where she earned a Master of Science degree in ceramics engineering, Dunbar became a senior research engineer in Rockwell International's Space Division, where she designed the equipment and manufacturing processes used to fabricate the ceramic tiles for the Space Shuttle thermal protection system. In 1978, she joined NASA as a flight controller / payload officer, and was a guidance and navigation controller for Skylab during its de-orbiting and re-entry in July 1979. She was selected as one of the nineteen astronaut candidates in NASA Astronaut Group 9 in 1980. She flew in space five times, on the STS-61-A, STS-32, STS-50, STS-71 and STS-89, and trained in Russia as a cosmonaut. Dunbar left NASA to become the president and chief executive officer of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where she was involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for high school students. From 2013 to 2015, she led the University of Houston's STEM Center and was a faculty member in the Cullen College of Engineering. She became the John and Bea Slattery professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University in 2016, and was the Director of the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI) there from 2016 to 2020.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Bonnie J. Dunbar (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 7 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Bonnie J. Dunbar, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Penetrating questions and inquiry

A graduate of the University of Washington, where she earned a Master of Science degree in ceramics engineering, Dunbar became a senior research engineer in Rockwell International's Space Division, where she designed the equipment and manufacturing processes used to fabricate the ceramic tiles for the Space Shuttle thermal protection system.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, engineering.

Other astronauts with this card

• Frederick D. Gregory — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
• James C. Adamson — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights
• James S. Voss — NASA Group 12 · Former · 5 flights
• Mary L. Cleave — NASA Group 9 · Deceased · 2 flights
• William F. Fisher — NASA Group 9 · Former · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Bonnie J. Dunbar's birth card?

The 7 of Spades. March 3 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a spaceflight?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast missions, character, or fate.

Where do Bonnie J. Dunbar's dates come from?

Birth date 1949-03-03 is the day-precision date on Bonnie J. Dunbar's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · Former · 5 flights), verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only NASA dates and NASA↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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