Daniel W. Bursch's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Daniel Wheeler Bursch (born July 25, 1957) is a former NASA astronaut, and Captain of the United States Navy. The birth-card coordinate for July 25 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Daniel W. Bursch's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 W. Bursch. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

Live 3 of Clubs meaning page

Daniel W. Bursch in the public record

He had four spaceflights, the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions lasting 10 to 11 days each. His fourth and final spaceflight was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as a crew member of Expedition 4, which lasted from December 2001 to June 2002. This 196-day mission set a new record for the longest duration spaceflight for an American astronaut, a record simultaneously set with his crew mate Carl Walz. Their record has since been broken, and as of 2016 it is held by Scott Kelly, who flew a 340-day mission during Expeditions 43, 44 and 45. Bursch graduated from Vestal Senior High School, Vestal, New York, in 1975; received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the United States Naval Academy in 1979, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1991. Bursch graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979, and was designated a Naval Flight Officer in April 1980 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 W. Bursch, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

His fourth and final spaceflight was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as a crew member of Expedition 4, which lasted from December 2001 to June 2002.

Paired on shared wording: long, stay. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 3♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. After initial training as an A-6E Intruder bombardier/navigator (B/N), he reported to VA-34 in January 1981, and deployed to the Mediterranean aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F.
2. Kennedy, and to the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans aboard USS America.
3. He attended the U.S.
4. Naval Test Pilot School in January 1984.

Other astronauts with this card

• David A. Wolf — NASA Group 13 · Former · 3 flights
• John-David F. Bartoe — NASA Group 11 · Former · 1 flight
• Richard J. Hieb — NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 flights
• Sidney M. Gutierrez — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights

FAQ

What is Daniel W. Bursch's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. July 25 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 W. Bursch's dates come from?

Birth date 1957-07-25 is the day-precision date on Daniel W. Bursch's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 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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