David M. Brown's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for April 16 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

David M. Brown's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 David M. Brown. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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David M. Brown in the public record

He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996 but had not served on a space mission prior to the Columbia disaster. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Brown was born on April 16, 1956, in Arlington, Virginia. As a youth, he attended McKinley Elementary School and Swanson Middle School, and graduated from Yorktown High School in Arlington in 1974. Brown was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the College of William & Mary in 1978, and a Doctor of Medicine from the Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1982. Brown joined the U.S.

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

Where the record meets the Jack 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 David M. Brown, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

Working 24 hours a day, in two alternating shifts, the crew successfully conducted approximately 80 experiments.

Paired on shared wording: shifts, working. This line comes from the Neptune position of the 5♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. Navy after his internship at the Medical University of South Carolina.
2. Upon completion of flight surgeon training in 1984, Brown reported to the Navy Branch Hospital in Adak, Alaska, as Director of Medical Services.
3. He was then assigned to Carrier Air Wing Fifteen which deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Western Pacific.
4. In 1988, Brown became the only flight surgeon in a 10-year period to be chosen for pilot training.

Other astronauts with this card

• Bryan D. O’Connor — NASA Group 9 · Former · 2 flights
• Carl E. Walz — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• Donald R. McMonagle — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
• Fernando Caldeiro — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
• Thomas D. Jones — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• William G. Gregory — NASA Group 13 · Former · 1 flight

FAQ

What is David M. Brown's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. April 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 David M. Brown's dates come from?

Birth date 1956-04-16 is the day-precision date on David M. Brown's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 16 · Deceased · 1 flight), 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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