NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Daniel M. Tani's Birth Card: The Jack of Spades
The Messenger of Truth
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a spaceflight.
In the record
Daniel Michio Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for February 1 is the Jack of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Jack of Spades coordinate
Daniel M. Tani's birthday maps to the Jack of Spades (The Messenger of Truth). 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 M. Tani. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name what is actually happening and you remain after you have said it.
Daniel M. Tani in the public record
He was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, but considers Lombard, Illinois, to be his hometown. With Peggy Whitson, Tani conducted the 100th spacewalk on the International Space Station. Tani graduated from Glenbard East High School, Lombard, Illinois, in 1979, and received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984, and 1988, respectively. While at MIT, Tani became a brother of the Lambda Phi chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Tani's Space suit is featured prominently in the main hallway of Glenbard East High School, where he graduated from in 1979. After Tani received his bachelor's degree from MIT, he worked at Hughes Aircraft Corporation in El Segundo, California as a design engineer in the Space and Communications group. In 1986, he returned to MIT and received his master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1988, specializing in human factors and group decision making. After graduation, Tani worked for Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the experimental psychology department.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Daniel M. Tani (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack 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 Daniel M. Tani, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Daniel M. Tani's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♠ — Birth Card: The Messenger of Truth
- 10♣ — Karma — Environment: The Master Builder
- 7♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Analytical Creator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 8♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Powerful Mind
- 6♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Creator
- K♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Master Leader
- 5♥ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Restless Heart
- 3♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Creative Communicator
- 3♠ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Compassionate Idealist
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Courage to speak difficult truths
Daniel Michio Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer.
Also on the record
- In 1988, Tani joined Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) in Dulles, Virginia, initially as a senior structures engineer, and then as the mission operations manager for the Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS).
- In that role, he served as the TOS flight operations lead, working with NASA/JSC mission control in support of the deployment of the ACTS/TOS payload during the STS-51 mission in September 1993.
- Tani then moved to the Pegasus program at OSC as the launch operations manager.
- In that capacity, he served as lead for the development of procedures and constraints for the launching of the air-launched Pegasus uncrewed rocket.
Other astronauts with this card
- No other astronaut in this set shares the Jack of Spades.
FAQ
- What is Daniel M. Tani's birth card?
- The Jack of Spades. February 1 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 M. Tani's dates come from?
- Birth date 1961-02-01 is the day-precision date on Daniel M. Tani's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 16 · Former · 2 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Daniel M. Tani) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q375631) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Daniel M. Tani). Birth date 1961-02-01 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).