Carl J. Meade's Birth Card: The 4 of Clubs

In the record

Carl Joseph Meade (born November 16, 1950) is a former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for November 16 is the 4 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 4 of Clubs coordinate

Carl J. Meade's birthday maps to the 4 of Clubs (The Systematic Builder). 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 Carl J. Meade. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You put knowledge into an order other people can actually use.

Live 4 of Clubs meaning page

Carl J. Meade in the public record

Meade was born on November 16, 1950, at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. He is currently married with two sons. he resides in Canyon Country, California. Meade enjoys woodworking, home-built aircraft construction, racquetball, jogging, and snow skiing. His parents were John Migliorini (later changed to Meade), and Esther Josephine Compitiello. He graduated in 1968 from Randolph High School, on Randolph Air Force Base, in Texas. In 1973 he received a Bachelor of Science degree (with honors) in electronics engineering from the University of Texas, and in 1975 completed a Master of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from California Institute of Technology. He currently works for Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems as an engineering manager on the Crew Exploration Vehicle project. Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Clubs

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 Carl J. Meade, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You pressure-test a stale idea in public and let the better one win. Your mind craves novelty, variety, and freedom. You get bored easily and need constant stimulation. You're the one who disrupts stale thinking.

He has held a variety of technical assignments including verification testing of flight software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL), crew escape flight tests, Orbiter ground egress tests and launch support duties, both at the Kennedy Space Center and at the Vandenberg Launch Site.

Paired on shared wording: testing, variety.

Also on the record

1. He entered the U.S.
2. Air Force at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, where he was a distinguished graduate of Undergraduate Pilot Training.
3. In 1977, Meade was assigned to the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, where he flew the RF-4C.
4. He was then selected as a member of the USAF Test Pilot School Class 80B.

Other astronauts with this card

• Bernard A. Harris Jr. — NASA Group 13 · Former · 2 flights
• Catherine G. Coleman — NASA Group 14 · Former · 3 flights
• Duane G. Carey — NASA Group 16 · Former · 1 flight
• Michael J. Smith — NASA Group 9 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table

FAQ

What is Carl J. Meade's birth card?

The 4 of Clubs. November 16 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 Carl J. Meade's dates come from?

Birth date 1950-11-16 is the day-precision date on Carl J. Meade's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 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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