NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Daniel T. Barry's Birth Card: The Ace of Hearts
The Emotional Pioneer
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 Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953) is an American engineer, scientist, television personality, and a retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for December 30 is the Ace of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Ace of Hearts coordinate
Daniel T. Barry's birthday maps to the Ace of Hearts (The Emotional 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 T. Barry. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start real connection on purpose: you say what you feel and leave room for the other person to answer.
Daniel T. Barry in the public record
He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009 to 2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow AI, a telepresence robotics company, and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics. Barry is a 1971 graduate of Bolton High School in Alexandria, Louisiana. He is a member of the Theta Chi fraternity. Barry graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He graduated in 1980 with a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University after completing a doctoral dissertation titled Correlated X-ray diffraction analysis and electron microscopy of photoreceptor membranes. In 1982, he graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Miami.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Daniel T. Barry (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Diamonds
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 T. Barry, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Daniel T. Barry's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♥ — Birth Card: The Emotional Pioneer
- 3♥ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Heart
- A♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Wealth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Sorrowful Truth
- J♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Successful Messenger
- 6♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Generous Provider
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Creative Messenger
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Master Leader
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.
Natural resource building and accumulation
He is also a co-founder of Fellow AI, a telepresence robotics company, and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: company, founder.
Also on the record
- Following graduate school at Princeton University, Barry was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in physics at Princeton.
- He then attended the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, where he graduated in 1982.
- He completed an internship and a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency at the University of Michigan in 1985.
- He was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in the Bioengineering Program at the University of Michigan in 1985, and his tenure was approved by the Regents in 1992.
Other astronauts with this card
- No other astronaut in this set shares the Ace of Hearts.
FAQ
- What is Daniel T. Barry's birth card?
- The Ace of Hearts. December 30 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 T. Barry's dates come from?
- Birth date 1953-12-30 is the day-precision date on Daniel T. Barry's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 14 · 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).
Get the $9 Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a written card report for your own birthday — not an astronaut reading.
Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Daniel T. Barry) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1162918) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Daniel T. Barry). Birth date 1953-12-30 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).