Daniel C . Burbank's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

In the record

Daniel Christopher Burbank (born July 27, 1961) is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. The birth-card coordinate for July 27 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Daniel C . Burbank's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). 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 Daniel C . Burbank. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

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Daniel C . Burbank in the public record

Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick. Burbank was born in Manchester, Connecticut, and raised in Tolland, Connecticut, where he graduated from Tolland High School. He attended Fairfield University his freshman year before transferring to the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he earned his commission in 1985. In 1987, he went through flight training and became an instructor pilot, serving at various Coast Guard stations at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, and Coast Guard Air Station Sitka. He has a master's degree in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Selected by NASA in April 1996, Burbank reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. After completing two years of training and evaluation, Burbank worked technical issues for the Astronaut Office Operations Planning Branch, and the International Space Station (ISS) Branch, and served as CAPCOM (spacecraft communicator) for both Space Shuttle and ISS missions. He was also a member of the Space Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade design team.

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

Where the record meets the King of Hearts

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 Daniel C . Burbank, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.

A space walk was performed to connect power and data cables between the newly arrived Service Module and the ISS.

Paired on shared wording: power, space.

Also on the record

1. Twice flown, he served as a mission specialist on STS-106 and STS-115 logging over 23 days in space, and 7 hours and 11 minutes of EVA time.
2. From January 2007 to December 2009, Burbank served as a professor of engineering at the U.S.
3. Coast Guard Academy, where he taught astronomy, aerodynamics, and statics & engineering design.
4. Burbank was assigned to ISS Expedition 29 and Expedition 30 aboard ISS beginning September 2011.

Other astronauts with this card

• Charles J. Precourt — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• Douglas G. Hurley — NASA Group 18 · Former · 3 flights
• Eileen M. Collins — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• Lee J. Archambault — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• Ronald E. McNair — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• William C. McCool — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Daniel C . Burbank's birth card?

The Ace of Clubs. July 27 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 Daniel C . Burbank's dates come from?

Birth date 1961-07-27 is the day-precision date on Daniel C . Burbank's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 16 · 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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